Apple's future in the clouds

I was reading an article today posted on one of my favorite apple know it all web sites, appleinsider, which claimed apple was stocking its shelves with personnel to put reality into the cloud computing future. Now we all knew Apple had this up there sleeves its just a matter of how it is going to affect our use of their services and if we can finally do away with bogging down our precious hard drive space with episodes of Jersey Shore, just kidding who the hell would put that on their computers:) Any way back to the subject at hand- cloud based music/video. This is an exciting concept, one in which amazon has already jumped on the band wagon with (I have not had a chance to check out their version, but I will and get back to you soon with a review) here is what I would like to see Apple's version accomplish, perhaps my wants are greater than they are willing to give but here it goes: 1-dont just put the metadata for the music on a cloud, let us ACTUALLY put the music/video on there. Otherwise we are still forced to keep a version on our hard drive and this defeats my main objective of freeing up hard drive space.2- allow us to put any ripped cd or video on our account, not just itunes purchases. Most people are probably not like me and have a life savings worth of itunes music/ video on their computers, I would imagine a lot of people's library consists of some itunes tracks and or videos but a whole lotta ripped music. I dont want to be limited to remote access of only the tunes I HAD to download off itunes, I want access to my 10k plus library at all times anywhere. that brings me to #3, and this is unfortunately might be the deal breaker for most. Make us pay a little something for this.I know i might have just lost my audience on this point but this might help keep the riff-raff from uploaded entire years worth of jersey shore episodes which will undoubtedly cause the servers- no matter how massive the farm is- to be bogged down and not perform as im dreaming they will. Also I have grown accustomed to giving Apple some money every year for mobile me so if they incorporate that into the cloud, i wont even notice having to cough up a little to have what I truly consider one of the coolest things that will come to fruition in the next few years. Everyone hold onto their hats or they might just be blown into the clouds:)