Using Android’s platform, hackers have found that Google’s music cloud is ready to go, at least for anyone who wants to dig into Honeycomb.

It has been rumored that Google is preparing to debut its music cloud which is essentially an Internet-based store where you can keep the music you already own. This is what has been discovered in the Honeycomb music player.

Google does not support the player as of yet, but anyone who wants to download the application is able to and can sync up their current musical selections with the cloud. They can then play back the song after removing them from the phone.

This isn’t worth much, though. It gives people more space on the phone and certainly the application will arrive with a desktop program as well. This means the music on the cloud can be listened to on a variety of players.

This type of system has been introduced in the past and the companies responsible for the programs have said that copyright laws don’t apply because Fair Use regulations let people who own the songs make as many copies as they want. Just because these copies are stored on the cloud does not mean any violation occurred. Generally, though, the record labels have not bowed to this argument and because the United Kingdom does not have any regulations for fair use, copyrights are still valid in that location.

The XDA Developers’ Forum has several posts from people who have accessed the cloud and some users have indicated that they are able to stream songs from Google’s cloud to phones that are installed with Gingerbread.

Because it can sync to Gingerbread, it is clear that Google is dedicated to offering the cloud. However, there is little chance that this will go unchallenged by people who own the copyrights.

Even so, Google has a reputation of plowing over these kinds of issues, so it’s possible they will succeed again with the cloud.

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