Sunday, January 20, 2008

One More Thing .... Pandora Radio

"We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative."

This is a disgrace!

The fact that some money grabbing executives in the "music industry" think that streaming music across the globe is bad for "their" business is depriving U.K. based music lovers from using this most excellent technology.

Pandora lets you start from a given point - say a song or an artist, and will play you tracks that relate in some way to the starting point. You can add and subtract artists, change the bias towards certain styles - it is brilliant - and if I was allowed to use it, then I would most likely have spent yet more money on CDs or downloads. Now that I can't - well the "music business" will lose out because I shall continue to cut them out and wherever possible buy direct from the artists.

The "Music Business" is trying to kill Music.

Long Live Pandora!

No comments: