Tiscali Juke Box: Tiscali shuts down music streaming service

Internet firm Tiscali has closed its music sharing Juke Box. The company is blaming European recording industry saying that they are totally impossible to work with.

They were told by the recording industry to remove the feature which enabled the user to search the music by artist name.

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) claims that the service offered facilities, which breached their license.

Tiscali Juke Box was launched in April this year and offered a legal peer-to-peer service to users to listen to songs online.

IFPI spoke about their decision to tell Tiscali to disable a feature on the service: “Consumers were allowed a high degree of interactivity that breached these rules in many ways - for example, streaming individual tracks on demand.”

Tiscali.co.uk editor Richard Ayers spoke about their disappointing experience dealing with the recording industry: “It’s very disappointing. We were trying to develop a new and innovative service in order to increase the appreciation of music, and indeed the purchasing of music. It was clearly working.”