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Pandora forced to cut off British users
The Pandora net radio service will be cut off from its British users on 15 January. The popular company said it was being forced to cease streaming music to British users of the service due to an unresolved royalty case.The issue relates to the rates Pandora pays to UK music rights groups to stream music to the site's British users.
Pandora founder Tim Westergren said he was "very, very sorry" for the abrupt end to the service which builds unique personal radio stations for users based around their own musical tastes.
Net radio services in the US are licensed under the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act but any company that wishes to stream music overseas has to negotiate deals via a nation-by-nation basis.
May 2007 saw Pandora cutting off all of its listeners who were not based in the US yet kept streaming music to UK users in the midst of negotiations over a licensing deal for Britain. The users' locations are tracked by the net address fixed within their computers.
The rates demanded per track by UK licensing authorities were too high to support, Westergren wrote in his apologetic e-mail to the site's listeners.
Mr Westergren added: "We're going to keep fighting for a fair and workable rate structure that will allow us to bring Pandora back to you."
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Published Date: 2008-01-10 11:11:47Subscribe to our RSS News feed:
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