Music

[andrewducker]

The first question is referring solely to music that belongs, in some way, to you. Something where you get a file out of it. Things like iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, etc.

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Comments

[andrewducker]

That's terribly odd, because Spotify is legal - they license the music properly.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

They might not license it properly in France where it is considerably harder to do so than in the rest of the world.

France doesn't considering it legally licensed for use in France simply because it's been legally licensed in the United States. You have to go through their endless bureaucracy (which is why when a new bar opens in France you often won't hear any music inside it for the first six months or so that it's open.)

[andrewducker]

No, seriously, they're part-owned by a bunch of music labels, and their big selling point is that they're entirely legitimate. They've licensed music in the areas that they exist in, which is why they're only available in about 6 countries (the USA isn't one of them, as they're still sorting the licensing issues there).

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Then Free and Orange may just not want to deal with it.

It's France, I'm used to things not making sense.

[skington.livejournal.com]

I'm with Orange in France here (Périgueux), and I get French-language ads on Spotify. So must be your particular ISP.

Although it complains that I'm not in the location I've specified in my profile (I'm in Scotland most of the time), so that might be it.

[andrewducker]

And I can't find any reference to Spotify being blocked in France. Very odd.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say. My entire experience with Spoofify has been people on Facebook telling me I should try it, me going to the site and it telling me to fuck off.

[andrewducker]

I'm baffled :->

Oh well, should you ever visit Edinburgh I'll show off the marvels that are denied you :->

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

No, they definitely *do* license it properly in France, but *don't* license it for the US. They've got licensing agreements in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the UK.
I've tried googling and found no evidence at all that Spotify is illegal in France, and plenty of sites talking about them operating there perfectly legally...

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Then the Montpellier ISPs are fucked up.

I wonder if some asshat in the Langedoc prefecture for some reason doesn't understand them and just told them to block it down here.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Entirely possible. And absolutely disgusting... Maybe you should complain to your ISP? I certainly would, if mine were blocking legit sites (or indeed non-legit ones for that matter...)

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

There is no point in complaining to any company in France ever.