SuperQ;253186 Wrote: > 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.
Yup. Any hardware and/or software manufacturer wants their products as border free and restriction free as is possible. The more restrictions on the products uses = fewer/less sales of that product. It isn't Slim Devices going out of their way to restrict access cuz they only care about US sales. It's the governments, trade agreements, music industry, etc.. that are making this difficult and restrictive. The original poster should be calling and writing those government & legal entities that are the actual cause of the problem. Posting in here is welcome, but will accomplish nothing as the problems exist outside of these forums. :) -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41626 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
