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Lady Gaga's New Release Crashes Amazon Servers

When Amazon offered Lady Gaga's new release "Born This Way" as an MP3 for 99 cents, the move was seen as a way to promote the online retailer's Cloud Drive program. Cloud Drive lets users store music files on remote servers rather than a hard drive and then stream content to via the web. Unfortunately, there were so many purchases that the company's servers could not handle the volume and users could not download or listen to the album. Customers took their complaints to the social web.

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