Recebi um e-mail hoje do Pandora, dizendo que eles irão bloquear os IP’s da maioria dos países diferentes dos IP’s do US and A. Eles disseram que lá existe uma licença para que eles possam tocar as músicas no Pandora, mas essa licença não existe nos outros países, e por isso eles foram obrigados a banir os IP’s desses países.

O site deles inclusive já está com a mensagem de que o Pandora é atualmente para usuários do US and A apenas. Será uma perda tremenda. Eu mesmo escutava 90% de minhas músicas no Pandora e isso me dava uma liberdade com as MP3, já que eu não precisava baixar nada. Agora terei que lotar meu HD com as músicas que eu gosto.

De acordo com a carta, hoje, dia 3 de Maio, o Pandora já estará com o sistema de bloqueio ativado, mas eu, até o momento em que fiz este post, estava conseguindo escutar as músicas normalmente. E outra, aposto que alguém vai conseguir burlar esse bloqueio e liberar o Pandora pra nós. Se não conseguirem, surgirá um substituto.

Dê uma olhada na carta que eles mandaram: (está toda em inglês)

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 ‘200.xxx.xxx.xx’, which indicates you are listening from Brazil. 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)

[tags]Pandora, internet, USA, tecnologia, mp3, radio[/tags]