I just received an email (and probably if you are living outside US and an avid pandora listener, you must have too) from Pandora Support giving the very unfortunate news that from tomorrow, they would be blocking access to Pandora from Ireland and all countries outside of the US. Some excerpts from the email:
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We show your IP address is 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', which indicates you are listening from Ireland.
Consequently, on May 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you. We deeply share your sense of disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.
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I appreciate Pandora's effort to send the email and for their disappointment. It is/was one of best services avaliable to listen to music of varied taste and got to hear several good singers from their recomendations.
Gonna miss it, until I find a proxy server ;) to listen to it.
But in short - music industry and their DRM & copyrights laws sucks big time. Also they want to increase their licensing fees for online radios, so its not only pandora, mebbe in future, they might just kill all.
2 comments:
THanks for the post, and kind words. This is really heartbreaking for us, but we're stuck with the existing laws.
Working hard as we can to launch this across the pond...
Cheers. Tim (Founder)
Thanks Tim for personally leaving the comment. I am sure Pandora would be back soon all over the world. Good Luck with the work.
Keep the good work going :))
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