No more Pandora for the European .... last.fm will rule

2006 was the year people benchmarked Pandora vs Last.fm
Something that will be impossible this year. Pandora will shut out non-US user tonight !
It's very sad, but it will force a market regulation since pandora will need to act & lobby to find a solution (global or local ...  pandora will therefore open the trail for followers, that's the only good side effect).   

Pandora operates under Section 114 of the DMCA, which gives them a clear process for paying rights holders in the U.S. There is no international equivalent of the DMCA, and so to operate legally in other countries, Pandora must sign deals with rights holders directly. That means separate deals with labels and publishers for each song, an extremely difficult and time consuming task.
The full news is avalable on techcrunch

Comments

[Rédigé par: Cyrmen]

J'aimais bien Pandora...Ils font chiers ces US! J'ai aps trop compris la raison d'ailleurs...
J'suis jamais très motivé ni très bon pour lire en anglais donc tes billets souvent je les survole juste quand ils sont en anglais(....)

Bon week end à toi !