Получил только что не радостный email. :sad2:

Dear Pandora listener,

Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora’s streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.

It is difficult to convey just how disappointing this is for us. Our vision remains to eventually make Pandora a truly global service, but for the time being, we can no longer continue as we have been. As a small company, the best chance we have of realizing our dream of Pandora all around the world is to grow as the licensing landscape allows.

We show your IP address is ‘***.***.***.***’, which indicates you are listening from Latvia. If you believe you are seeing this by mistake, we offer our sincere apologies and ask that you please reply to this email.

Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who created the music - we have always believed in honoring the guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and performance royalty payments for every song we play.

Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are now able to recognize a listener’s country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. 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 be posting updates on our blog regarding our ongoing effort to launch in other countries, so please stay in touch. 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.

-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)

Кто знает Американские халявные proxy? :???:

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8 Responses

  1. vestel vestel May 2, 2007
    23:34 pm
    #1

    А нафиг тебе Пандора, когда есть last.fm и imeem.com?

  2. Hairgel_Addict Hairgel_Addict May 2, 2007
    23:46 pm
    #2

    мне оно больше нравиться(нравилось)… last.fm очень часто полную чушь “не из той оперы” играет, т.к. тэги могут прописывать все кому не лень.. а в pandora создаешь радио станцию, походу прослушивание, так же как и на laft.fm, говоришь ему “нра/ненра” и добавляешь в эту станцию всякие другие группы/исполнителей и оно играет именно в том стиле, которой ему задаешь..

    а last.fm… не знаю.. но мне кажется странным когда после Slayer играет Eminem.. а в Drum’n'Bass тэгах встречаются нытики из Брит-рока.. :blank:

  3. Kukish Kukish May 3, 2007
    00:20 am
    #3

    С прокси - эт проблема…я как-то пару недель проксихантил … могу сказать, что оооочень редкая прокся живёт дольше суток. А вообще я гуглом пользовался, попробуй и ты…если что тебе подходят только anonymous и elite прокси :dunno:

  4. Hairgel_Addict Hairgel_Addict May 3, 2007
    00:26 am
    #4

    на выходных поковыряю это дело… прост думал мало ли у кого уже есть.. список проксей найти как два пальца об асфальт.. а вот что мриканское было.. это проверять нуна через всякие arin.net :blin:

  5. ausim May 3, 2007
    01:41 am
    #5

    Predictable.

  6. Hairgel_Addict Hairgel_Addict May 3, 2007
    01:49 am
    #6

    [quote comment="5019"]Predictable.[/quote]
    Yeah..

  7. Tim Westergren May 3, 2007
    09:29 am
    #7

    I’m sorry we had to do this. And sorry for my lack of linguistic skills. I hope you can read this post.

    We’ll be hard at work trying to improve the situation.

    Regards, TIm (Founder)

  8. Hairgel_Addict Hairgel_Addict May 3, 2007
    11:37 am
    #8

    [quote comment="5021"]I’m sorry we had to do this. And sorry for my lack of linguistic skills. I hope you can read this post.
    We’ll be hard at work trying to improve the situation.
    Regards, TIm (Founder)[/quote]

    Wow! First email, now this.. I envy your devotion to a non-profit project :) About “blocking access” - it’s completely understandable that you had to do it, no worries.

    I’ve subscribed to your blog’s feed & will be waiting for any good news :)

 
 

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