y360;327749 Wrote: > The skip limit is required for lastfm radio to be in compliance with > the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. > > In contrast with on-demand music services such as Rhapsody, companies > that stream music as radio channels do not need to get the agreement of > the copyright holders before playing their music. > > They do have to pay royalties and abide by certain rules such as in any > 3-hour period, they can broadcast: > > * No more than 3 songs from one album; > no more than 2 played consecutively > * No more than 4 songs from a set/compilation; > no more than 3 played consecutively > * No more than 4 recorded songs by the same artist > etc > > > The only exception to obtaining such explicit permissions is radio > service, which can play any music without permission of music owners, > but then it must abide by rules stated above.
That's all well and good but why does LastFm's own player not have a skip limit? doesn't seem very fair. -- mattybain '[image: http://imagegen.last.fm/recenttracks3/recenttracks/MattyBain.gif]' (http://www.last.fm/user/MattyBain/?chartstyle=recenttracks3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50296 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
