Not sure your analogy is good Alex, seems quite loose, you are transferring a music stream from one computer to another, it doesn't matter where the decoding occurs... It applies too to online music services (say, <a href="http://last.fm">last.fm</a>), and they are required to pay royalties.<br>
<br>That said, as a user and not a dev I can find many uses for it... but what would you offer that, say, Ampache doesn't?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Kosenkov</b> <<a href="mailto:alex.kosenkov@gmail.com">alex.kosenkov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="gmail_quote">And btw concerning legal issues:<br></span><p>My brother is a legal expert. And at least here in Russia it is illegal to download songs from other people - but the fact is that in my approach you are _not_ downloading and saving music from users, you listen it _through_ them and this in fact is allowed by the law. (basically it's the same as the situation when you hear a music which is played by the iPod of somebody who walks around you)</p>
<p>And I think it's a legal and very usefull functionality!</p></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Luis Pabón