Turntable.FM blocked outside USA
Following on from my popular Turntable.FM post, it seems the virtual party is temporarily over for people outside of America.
I actually broke the news an hour before the official confirmation from Turntable's own Twitter account;
which immediately led to an outcry by followers who, like me, have become hooked on the service over the past week.
After tweeting about the block pretty much as soon as it happened, I haven't had a chance to sit down and write about it. In the couple of days that has passed a few other posts have sprung up talking about the block, so I'd recommend you read the GigaOm post announcing it, which interestingly states Turntable.FM have picked up 140,000 users.
<rant warning> Let me just say music industry "what are you doing?" A few years ago I worked on a music product and I vowed I would never go near music from a business perspective ever again. This weeks shenanigans just re-enforces that frustration. Just why an industry in terminal decline insists on strangling any innovation which may actually give it a life line is just beyond me, and extinguishes any sympathy for their continued struggles. (ref Spotify entering new markets)
If only they spent as much energy on innovating and revisiting antiquated licensing policies, as they do taking kids to court for illegal downloading. </rant>
So I'll join thousands of our non US users waiting for some breakthrough in the problems. In the mean time...
