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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:it's cool i've tried it by skeeto · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except it requires Flash to use it. Looks like you can't access this music using only free software. :-(

  2. Re:Sweet mama ! it really works well by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just used it on my 400Mhz arm phone with opera. It works as well as my core 2 duo/firefox desktop machine.

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  3. Re:Goodbye Pandora, Bonjour Deezer? by kalaf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did the same, and they sent an email a few months back saying they knew I wasn't in the US and they were being pressured to cut off access from certain countries by a set date. Pandora stopped working on that date.

    It's really sad for the RIAA, since Pandora was the only way they could bleed any money from me (from Pandora's pocket, of course). I thought about finding a proxy server to bypass their filters, but decided that if the music industry was going to be that obtuse about people giving them money I couldn't even justify sending them additional pennies by proxy...

  4. Re:it's cool i've tried it by RobertM1968 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ummm... Flash Player is NOT free for many Operating Systems... it's NON-EXISTANT

    In the Linux and OS/2 world, Gnash and numerous other (non-Adobe) Flash Players have yet to reach the latest release level compatibility with the actual Flash Player. While that isnt always a problem, I am running into more and more sites that check for and require a higher level Flash version (ie: 8 or 9).

    Not everyone runs Windows ya know...

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  5. Sounds fishy by David+Off · · Score: 3, Interesting

    SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musiques) have been working with the RIAA to shut down allofmp3.com in Russia. SACEM's boss claimed that the Russian's only had rights to exploit the RAO catalogue on Russian territory. Presumably SACEM only has rights to exploit their member's catalogue and then probably only on French soil. According to another article the agreement will be signed in the next few days. As France is a part of the WTO etc. I assume the RIAA will take Deezer/SACEM to court if the agreement exceeds their rights.