Siduhe;368199 Wrote: > > Deezer has (after a very tortous and well documented process) > negotiated rights for itself to stream on-demand full tracks from its > website. It will have done this with two groups of people - the > rightsholders themselves and the regulators. We have no way of knowing > what is in the agreements with the rightsholders, but they may also > impact on what Deezer can do with third parties, or it may require > Deezer to go and get further agreements with the rightsholders every > time they want to give a third party like Slim Devices access to their > services (this is quite common).
Interesting, I can see how these contracts may contain poison pills that require re-negotiation for each new third party. Siduhe;368200 Wrote: > > As others have mentioned, there may be restrictions on SD itself based > on other agreements it has with third party providers. [\QUOTE] > > Rhapsody, I guess? > > > > Siduhe;368201 Wrote: > > > > Also, Deezer may not want to give full functionality for commercial > > reasons - by offering limited, free, functionality through SD you > > create awareness of the service but still have the prospect of driving > > traffic to the Deezer site. [\QUOTE] > > > > Does access via API not get accounted for? Interesting. > > > > > > Siduhe;368202 Wrote: > > > > > > Or the price offered for full streaming functionality was too high for > > > SD, so they went for a more limited model.[\QUOTE] > > > > > > Inclined to agree > > > > > > > > > > > > Siduhe;368203 Wrote: > > > > > > > > Finally, there are the regulatory issues - here, Europe is in a pretty > > > > sorry state compared with the US. There is no single model or > > > > regulator to deal with and each country seeks to impose its own > > > > licencing requirements. Some are easier to deal with than others > > > > [\QUOTE] > > > > > > > > Agreed, although this may change soon... > > > > > > > > > > > > Siduhe;368204 Wrote: > > > > > > > > > > (and this I do have direct knowledge of). > > > > > [\QUOTE] > > > > > > > > > > Very intersting. In what capacity? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Siduhe;368205 Wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Some countries draw a distinction between streaming via web pages > > > > > > and > > > > > > streaming via third party hardware, that may be an issue in this > > > > > > case. > > > > > > [\QUOTE] > > > > > > > > > > > > Didn't know - will investigate. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for all your intersting insight Siduhe. > > > > > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > Giacomo -- gbruzzo http://www.last.fm/user/JackieBr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbruzzo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3633 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55928 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
