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Legal Music Streaming Site Launches In France

Posted by kdawson on from the trade-sanctions-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The French website Deezer.com has struck a deal with the SACEM (the French equivalent to the RIAA) and is now legally providing Internet users around the world with more than 100,000 full songs, streamed on demand and without restrictions. The site, formerly named Blogmuzik.net, had had to close down last March under pressure from the recording industry."

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  1. We the Free people of the world thank France by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Merci pour les emissions gratuits, mes amis!

    Information and music just wants to be free.

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  2. But...this doesn't make sense! by Sunburnt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are these the same innovation-stifling, reactionary French I keep seeing on Fox News and in the business press?

    I mean, free music? That REEKS of socialism. I, for one, am enough of a proud American to do whatever the music lobbyists of this greatest country in the world demands of me.

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  3. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So err does this mean the RIAA has surrendered to uhm France? Doesn't this rip a hole in the time-space continuum or something?

  4. Re:it's cool i've tried it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He means free as in hairy naked hippies frolicking across the meadow, not free as in stealing a Faberge egg from a museum by executing an implausibly complex plan involving a variety of non-existent high-tech gadgets.

  5. Could me more secure... by khendron · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you register they go through the motions of applying a secure sign-up process by not activating you until you've clicked the activation link in the email they send you. But with the activation link being deezer.com/confirm.php?email=, why bother?

    Oh, and after you've clicked the link they email you your password in the clear.

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  6. I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    welcome our french music-streaming overlords.