A proposal to place a levy on digital ‘lockers’ that allow consumers to store their music in the cloud has been tabled in the European Parliament.

The proposal comes from French MEP Francoise Castex who argued that “private copies of protected works made using cloud computing technology may have the same purpose as those made using traditional and/or digital recording media and materials."

It’s a view that has long been pushed for by the music industry as cloud lockers have ...