toby10;253136 Wrote: > The real restrictions come from the record companies, EU & US trade > agreements regarding copyright laws, lawyers in general.
Yea, I talked to the Pandora people a few months ago about this. They pay one single company a royalty rate (RIAA? I forget) for their music streams in the US. This makes it very easy for them to operate. Count the number of tracks played to people with US IP addresses and they're done. Now for example, in Germany they need to get a contract/license for every single record company that they could possibly play tracks for. It would be extremely complex and costly for them to do this. So they can't offer the service there. It's VERY annoying but that's the way it works. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41626 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
