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Pandora Trying Out Invasive Commercial Breaks

Posted by kdawson on from the knew-it-had-to-be-coming dept.

Nathan Halverson writes "The popular online radio service Pandora.com has added brief commercial interruptions to its service. Pandora says this is a trial and is targeted to a subset of listeners at this point. In one case, a brief ad for the Fox TV show 'Lie To Me' interrupted the music stream for about 15 seconds after ten songs had initially played, and the same commercial interrupted 22 songs later. 'But [Pandora's] founder promised the site will never carry as many audio ads as broadcast radio, despite the fact it pays substantially higher royalty fees to the recording industry.'"

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  1. Can't be accessed outside of US by PontifexPrimus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, they cannot be accessed outside of the US, anyway, so fuck 'em.
    Really, I get so annoyed about services like web-radio or web-tv (Hulu comes to mind) that only work for the USA and give a big "fuck you" to the rest of the world...

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    -- Language is a virus from outer space.
    1. Re:Can't be accessed outside of US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      The rest of the world has been giving a big "fuck you" to america for more than a decade.

      Until you want something.