The new MySpace Music launches tonight for everyone. But like Hulu, another joint venture backed by News Corp. (MySpace’s parent company), it’ll only be for U.S. users. International users will see the new design and functionality, but the new content won’t be there. Hulu is now a year old and most video content is still only watchable in the U.S.
MySpace already has tens of millions of non-U.S. users, none of which will be able to listen to the deep catalog of new music being added to the site from all the major labels. They won’t be able to access, create or share the new playlists. And if U.S. users add music to their profiles, people outside the U.S. won’t be able to listen to it (unless its part of the existing and much smaller catalog of music available today).
MySpace isn’t doing this just to thumb their nose at the rest of the world (and neither is Hulu). Complex licensing deals in each country have to be negotiated before they’ll have the right to play music to users in those countries. “These international deals are extremely complicated,” said MySpace, noting that they had a ten person deal team just to lock down U.S. rights. MySpace also says they are negotiating international licensing deals now and will have music available on a country-by-country basis “soon.”
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On the plus side, those of us who live elsewhere won’t have to listen to such annoying music whenever we rarely end up on a Myspace page.
Hey Andy Mike is wrong on this one.
You can still access Hulu and MySpace Music from outside USA. I am using both of them and without a problem, and really enjoying them.
Check this out to see how to use both sites from outside USA,
http://www.addictivetips.com/w.....de-the-us/
Cheers, Nakodari
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No one comments to your video comments because your video comments suck.
Have something insightful to say and you might get a response…
It is really hard to speed read video comments - include a transcript?
Because you’re an idiot. Won’t even waste time clicking play. So you co-founded TC? Lol. Mike - sue him.
To the a@£hole in the video - go look in the mirror, watch yourself, and if you still don’t feel a prick..ly feeling down your slimy spine… well then ignorance is bliss…
A Hole.
goodnight!
wow did anyone by any chance see the huge apple ad? Seems like the new ads are in place but not the new look.
Personally, I live in the US so I don’t care if it’s not available outside my country. If this is the deal they had to strike to get this service up and running, so be it. I’m just glad I can stream online for free.
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Well that’s not arrogant or anything.
as I had expected. silly for people like me far from the State.
U.S. only limitation should be easily remedied by a U.S. proxy or a VPN service provider (which should yield better performance) like http://www.hotspotvpn.com or http://www.witopia.net (personal VPN).
exactly, big deal
Lame.
hmmm . I don’t even think , India has actually resorted to DRM till now even after the piracy outcry. In that case , it will be trouble for the bunch like myspace who could be unsure about how India sees streaming free music !.
I am not sure myspace is as popular outside US anyways, so I think it is a good start for them.
myspace music really sucks - am I missing something or did they just put a new logo up, cause i don’t see anything AMAZING! in there - all bark with no bite.. $2billion valuation, obviously this valuation wasn’t based on users perspectives - i give it a $2 valuation for the fancy myspace music logo.
Re: I am not sure myspace is as popular outside US anyways, so I think it is a good start for them.
It certainly won’t be popular if they behave like this. My opinion of Hulu (and their parent News Int) is unprintable, after I recently wasted 10 minutes before I managed to find a viewable version of the SNL Palin sketch because they managed to ban it from youtube, and it seems myspace is showing equal contempt.
MySpace is extremely popular in Canada. They’re doing themselves a huge disservice by overlooking this market.
I agree, and this is even more true of Hulu which I’ve actually used from time to time but it’s a huge pain.
You would think that existing provisions would at least make it easy to make this stuff available throughout North America.
People actually visit myspace?
After all this noise and hype, it is not surprising that this is the best service that the aging myspace founders together with the clueless music executives could come up with. The best part is that they are empowering music piracy, as now any user with half a brain can download the complete catalogs from all FOUR major labels completely painlessly and free. Even with a simple browser, like Safari, a user can just go to the Activity window and see all the music played being downloaded to the computer…just add it to iTunes and voila, not need for Amazon!
I’m kind of disappointed… I had initially thought that myspace artists would be able to sell any of their music to their fans right through their page. But this is not it… very disappointing.
“people outside the U.S. won’t be able to listen to it”
Not that you’re missing anything, all the audio is crappy 96k mp3 - do yourself a favor and stick to imeem/last.fm/deezer who all deliver content at a much more aurally acceptable 128kbit/sec.
I also kept running into a bug that would cause multiple tracks to play at the same time until I reloaded the page.
I guess myspace decided to spend its money on PR and licenses rather than on
Hey Mike, I think you are wrong on this one. You can still access Hulu and MySpace Music from outside USA. I am using both of them and without a problem, and really enjoying them.
Check this out to see how to use both sites from outside USA,
http://www.addictivetips.com/w.....de-the-us/
Cheers, Nakodari
Anchorfree works well but has a transfer limit..3GB I think. Just FYI if you plan on using it a lot. A, dare I say it, “paid” VPN service (aforementioned http://www.witopia.net or http://www.hotspotvpn.com are good ones) would be better if you stream a lot of audio, or video like Hulu. Plus, I always found the anchorfree ads irritating.
The sites you mentioned, they all are asking for a price I think. The one I mentioned is free.
I hope this inches forward with iTunes going completely DRM Free.
Well, i guess it just is not that easy to strike a deal that spans multiple countries. And in a way, this could be a wake up call for the EU, to do something about the fragmentation. I wouldn’t mind if it has that effect.
Oh well…
The best way if you don’t open these services is to use personal vpn services like VPN Privacy (http://vpnprivacy.com) located in USA or Canada.
I found this thread through a convoluted series of Google searches. Better late than never I guess. I used to think free was the way to go and tried everything that was free. I spent more time looking for VPN’s and Proxy’s than downloading. Hotspot Shield and Personal VPN are both good options. I’ve been using Surfbouncer for a couple of months and find them good too. [url=http://www.surfbouncer.com/index.htm]