Those RIAA [EMAIL PROTECTED]&^% are at it again ! I can't access Pandora when I am travelling outside the US now !!
Here, is an email I got from Pandora > > Dear Pandora listener, > > Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due > to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to > say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora's > streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S. > > It is difficult to convey just how disappointing this is for us. Our > vision remains to eventually make Pandora a truly global service, but > for the time being, we can no longer continue as we have been. As a > small company, the best chance we have of realizing our dream of > Pandora all around the world is to grow as the licensing landscape > allows. > > We show your IP address is 'x.x.x.x', which indicates you are listening > from India. And, since you are a paid subscriber, we will be issuing a > pro-rated refund to the credit card that was used to sign up for > Pandora. If you believe you are seeing this by mistake, we offer our > sincere apologies and ask that you please reply to this email. > > Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who > created the music - we have always believed in honoring the guidelines > as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, > and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a > federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed > on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the > U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to > legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we > have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to > obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that > would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on > Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are > very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and > performance royalty payments for every song we play. > > Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, > relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are > now able to recognize a listener's country of origin based on the IP > address from which they are accessing the service. Consequently, on May > 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your > country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other > alternative. > > We will be posting updates on our blog regarding our ongoing effort to > launch in other countries, so please stay in touch. We will keep a > record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so > that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting > for you. We deeply share your sense of disappointment and greatly > appreciate your understanding. > > Tim Westergren > (Pandora founder) > -- Nikhil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34967 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
