Still Not In Your Country
Statistically, Americans do not travel . And this is why there is no rage about the geographical restrictions on electronic content services. The United States are bearing the critical market voting mass here and countries like the United Kingdom alone do not matter . In the old days, after buying a CD record, I could put it in a portable player, circle the globe and the music would continue playing uninterrupted. But these were the old days. Now we have changed the conduit - from physical discs to wireless streaming and suddenly we learn the hard way about the legal restrictions. For a consumer, how is an ABBA song on a physical record different from the same song on a music streaming account? Yet there seems to be hell of a difference to the royalty collector (or the middlemen), such that they restrict where you can or cannot listen. Which probably is not a problem for those who do not change a zip code throughout their entire life. But once you start moving, you quickly hit a w...