Christian Pernegger wrote: > - global. > At the moment this seems to be US only.
I can understand wny Pandora is US only, the 'legal issues" are bad enough in the US. Trying to roll it out in many countries with their many legal approaches to licensing is not likely to be any fun. We can hope that they get more countries on line as they mature. > - open > Why use a binary / DRM component at all? An username + password > combination should be enough to make sure everyone has paid up. Yes, > people could share passwords but only on a very small scale before it > raises alarms. Works well enough for: MMORPGs and adult sites. username passwords are not strong enough if you care about what you are doing, and the RIAA cares tons. Adult sites are a totally different business model. More importantly, the DRMs make getting licenses to stream the music a lot easier to get from the Record Labels. > - high quality > 128kbit/s mp3 is just not the state of the art Agreed, but again, it depends on the business model. For a streaming site, bandwidth is the most expensive part of the business. Consumers never see it, it tends to be burried in their broadband ISP's SLA. But commercial co-lo contracts are priced by bandwidth in both peak and monthy numbers. If people demand better quality, it will show up. But lots of people are happy with 128kb/mp3, warts and all. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
