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

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

That's... absolutely bizarre...
Pandora's slightly different because they've only ever legally operated in the US, so I can see why that would happen, but as far as Spotify goes I can't see any reason why it would be a problem. If they're going to criminalise the easiest and simplest way to *stop* people filesharing, then I can't even begin to imagine what their thought process is...

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Nobody understands the thought process of French bureaucrats.

I think part of it is that you not only have to get permission from the French government, but before the government will sign off on it you also have to get permission from the four or five unions that represent international artists in France.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

It might help you understand if you knew that the licensing issue here isn't to distribute the money to the artists themselves, but to distribute the money in the form of pensions for buskers when they retire (and for any other French citizen who claims they made the bulk of their income during their working years playing music.)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

A thought which in principle I find quite nice. France seems to me, from my limited knowledge of its infrastructure, to be a heady combination of Good Ideas and Bad Execution.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.