Nick: pertinent to your (and my) situation, initially Canada was excluded from the "banned" list:
Pandora Blog Wrote: > May 03, 2007 > > [snip] > > After a year of work, only the UK and Canada have shown enough progress > for us to feel comfortable allowing continued access. (from http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/) but this was changed on Monday: Pandora Blog Wrote: > May 14, 2007 > Canada > > Much to our chagrin, on the heels of our being forced to block > virtually our entire international listening audience, we now have to > add Canada to the list (beginning May 16th). We had been hopeful that > the licensing situation with our Northern friends might have some hope > of imminent resolution. However, after a tough week, and in the wake of > the substantial attention the blocking has clearly brought to this > issue, it's been made clear to us that we cannot continue streaming > into Canada. > > No need to reiterate just how difficult this is. It's just a terrible > thing for music that there's not even a licensing structure available > that would allow a webcaster to stream legally outside the U.S. > > I'll reiterate our commitment to fighting as hard as we can to fix this > absurd problem - we only hope that reform will come soon so that we can > get back to the business of listening and discovery. > > My sincerest apologies. > > Tim (Founder) I also notice that when I go to the website I get a "banned" page, http://www.pandora.com/restricted : > Dear Pandora Visitor, > > We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, > we can no longer allow access to Pandora for most listeners located > outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the > vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are > required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but > there is no other alternative. > > We believe that you are in Canada (your IP address appears to be > XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX). If you believe we have made a mistake, we apologize > and ask that you please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you are a paid subscriber, please contact us at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will issue a pro-rated refund to the > credit card you used to sign up. If you have been using Pandora, 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 will be notifying listeners as licensing agreements are established > in individual countries. If you would like to be notified by email when > Pandora is available in your country, please enter your email address > below. The pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the > ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere. > > We share your disappointment and greatly appreciate your > understanding. > > Sincerely, > > Tim Westergren > Founder Bleh. And here I thought our music licencing people weren't as fanatic as the RIAA. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34967 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
