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The box of Pandora.com closes…

…at least for all us European users.

I learned it from Techchrunch yesterday and I have to say, I’m thoroughly pissed. Pandora has kept me company through good and bad, relaxing and creative times online. There are many alternatives, I know, but Pandora was the first project of this genre that I got involved with and the one I stuck with till now.

And all this because of copyright laws. Pandora must lose over 50% of its user base because of that. Instead of taking these numbers to their advantage, companies thought that refusing access to all Europeans (and not only) would be the right thing to do.

So long, Pandora. Till next time. You’ll be sorely missed, despite your shiny competitors.

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This entry was posted on Friday, May 4th, 2007 at 8:14 pm by Sugar and is filed under Rantings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “The box of Pandora.com closes…”


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    stelios says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 8:14 am

    TI? paei h Pandora??? ouaaaa
    den yparxei logos na balw adsl pia…

  2. Gravatar
    Dimitris says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    There are proxies you know… works just fine

  3. Gravatar
    Sugar says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    @ Dimitris: Yeah, there are. So? Does that make the whole incident less irritating?

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    Dimitris says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Not a bit!..just a “technical” suggestion to overcome legislation’s bureaucratic myopia… Keep listening! :-)


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