Legal Music Streaming Site Launches In France

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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Re:it's cool i've tried it

[Technician]

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........