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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. Re:We the Free people of the world thank France by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Information and music don't want anything since they aren't alive.. You are the one that wants information and music for free. Just change your sig for the sake of honesty. Maybe.. I'm a freeloader - I want information and music for free!

  2. Re:it's cool i've tried it by wizardforce · · Score: 2, Insightful

    pandora? flash. finetune? flash. what online music station that you know of doesnt use flash? for that matter, how many websites are there that you can't really use without flash? it would be nice if websites were a bit more open-source friendly but for now either we put up with it or advance our own flash replacement.

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  3. Re:it's cool i've tried it by shmlco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "He means free as in hairy naked hippies frolicking across the meadow..."

    You'll notice that you hardly ever see that anymore. Mostly because they finally had to get jobs and live in the real world...

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  4. Re:it's cool i've tried it by Technician · · Score: 3, Insightful

    with the music frequently pausing during the stream.

    This is the problem with the internet bottleneck. There is lots of complaints that BitTorrent is sucking all the bandwidth. A file downloaded can and often is played many times. Think of the internet meltdown if you switched all the BitTorrent downloaders to 100% streaming instead.

    To fit the bandwidth now requires very high lossy streaming formats or a serious boost in bandwidth.

    Welcome back to the days of Buffering............Buffering...........Buffering ..........Buffering........

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  5. Re:it's cool i've tried it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    >My co-workers all use free.napster.com which works much better. YMMV.

    American only site, so yes useless to most of the world.