{"id":1170,"date":"2020-09-26T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T11:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appsvite.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:18:11","slug":"no-international-radio-for-you-uk-tunein-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.appsvite.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/26\/no-international-radio-for-you-uk-tunein-listeners\/","title":{"rendered":"No international radio for you, UK TuneIn listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"No<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s something that we can’t find any mention of on the TuneIn website<\/a> but, in a recent licensing battle between Sony Music and TuneIn, the result has been a complete removal of international stations for UK TuneIn users.<\/p>\n

A High Court battle against TuneIn from Sony and Warner resulted in TuneIn becoming “responsible for both direct and authorising infringement in connection to all but the UK-based stations contained in its app”.<\/p>\n

TuneIn tried to argue that it was simply a “search engine” which found and catalogued radio streams from around the world. Indeed, all of the international stations which are now not<\/i> listed or available in the TuneIn app can still be listened to if you simply Google, but not from within the app.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"No<\/a><\/p>\n

UK users are presented with this message when trying to listen to an international station<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The judge didn’t seem to go with the “search engine” argument, as TuneIn users can usually get far more involved in stations by searching for tracks and content.<\/p>\n

The TuneIn Twitter account<\/a> has been getting a lot of flack from customers, with even Premium users getting their favourite content blocked….<\/p>\n

\n

Hello,\u00a0Thank you for contacting us.\u00a0Due to a court ruling in the United Kingdom, we will be restricting\u00a0\u00a0international stations to\u00a0prohibit their\u00a0availability in the UK, with limited exceptions.\u00a0We apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n

— TuneIn (@tunein) September 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What a pain in the a** that is.<\/p>\n

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