Pandora closed

As I mentioned before in this blog, I was a fan of Pandora, the greatest music radio service on the Internet. As soon as I came back to Japan, I was shocked to know that the service was closed except for in the U.S. due to a license reason. Although Tim Westergren, the funder of Pandora says that he has an ultimate goal of being able to offer the service everywhere, it must be a hard way especially in Japan. We are living in the transient period from the old analog records to the new digital data distributions. The copyright law in most countries are behind the new technologies and and we sometimes encounter such unreasonable situations. I think that the transient cannot be stopped by anyone and sooner or later the happy world is to be realized where all the people can enjoy any music they like for free or almost free. I hope the old world people who are clinging to their established interest give up and the happy world for consumers or listeners comes as soon as possible.