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Pandora closes door for most non US customers
Internet radio service Pandora is no longer available to most customers outside of the United States and Britain. The network has been unable to reach licensing agreements with most copyright holders in most other countries.The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires copyright holders to license their content to internet broadcasters, but most countries have no such law.
Founder Tim Westergren says the company has been receiving pressure from record labels and could not hold out any longer. Ironically, the move comes the same day that Pandora and other internet music broadcasters received a two month reprieve from increased royalty fees in the U.S.
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Subscribe to commentscopperfishMay 3rd 2007 4:55PM
---> Start well worn rant ---->
When is a workable model going to be provided for this mess? I live in South Africa and due to "regional" licensing agreements I can't buy music from iTunes, can't ship certain items from Amazon and have no viable digital option for international content EXCEPT BitTorrent (the PirateBay etc. type). Yes I could order it and ship it and wait 3-4 weeks, but why? I don't even want the physical disc. I know this extends elsewhere with Japanese console games in the US as just one example. Please - whoever ultimately owns the content - let me buy and listen to digital copies of media wherever I am. I want to give you my money. I really do. But you don't seem to want it.
hazardMay 4th 2007 12:19AM
still works in Australia :)
phizmMay 4th 2007 7:54AM
Not anymore... :(
Any good pandora hack sites anyone?
hazardMay 4th 2007 7:55AM
.. yeah .. me and my big mouth >:(
hazardMay 4th 2007 10:40AM
ip masking gets around the restriction :)