[Free-sklyarov-uk] `listen.com'

[Edward Welbourne]

>> Due to licensing restrictions, Rhapsody's on-demand music
>> subscription service is available to U.S. residents only. ...  We are
>> working on expanding our subscription service outside of the U.S. in
>> the future.

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

They're non-specific about the `licensing restrictions'.  Maybe because
they don't mean problems with getting a license to publish works: their
problem is that they need DMCA-style laws to be able to enforce a
license that the music publishers will deem adquate `protection' of
their assets - prerequisite on any license to publish the works.

Someone living in a DMCA-oid-free zone would be able to take their
windoze-specific client and reverse-engineer it to work out how to write
a competing player.  At which point they'd be able to make copies.
Therefore this software is not available outside DMCA's empire.

So their `working on expanding' would be working to get DMCA-oid laws in
place all over.  Scary thought.

Still, with any luck that's just paranoia :-}

	Eddy.
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