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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: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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  2. 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.