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nri3@yahoo.com.au wrote:
 
> G'day,
> it is URL based,and that it identifies you via the URL you are
> on.  I believe it may be linked to royalties,and also stats
> needed by yahoo to keep the authorities happy.

Something doesn't make sense.

I received the following e-mail from Launchcast in response to my
question about why I was being asked to "visit my local Canadian
(launchcast) site":

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From: "Yahoo! Music" <launch-feedback@cc.yahoo-inc.com>
    
Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Music.

Unfortunately the video that you are attempting to view is not 
available for access within your area. This is simply due to 
licensing restrictions set in place by the record label that
owns this content.

Please attempt to stream the content from the following URL:

    http://ca.music.yahoo.com/   

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
Regards,
Victor
Yahoo! Customer Care
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In my message to Launchcast, I made no mention of any "video" that I
was attempting to view.

I was in fact attempting to view no video.

To re-cap, I get the message (or directive) to use a Canadian link
when I:

(1) go to www.yahoo.com

(2) select the music icon at the top of the screen 
    (which opens a new browser window with the url
     http://music.yahoo.com - which opens normally)

(3) select "listen to my station" which causes a new browser
    window to open with a plain blue background with the
    words "Starting your player..."
    URL of this page is 
   
http://radio.launch.yahoo.com/radio/play/?clientID=1&clientStationID=0&p=0&m=0&d=0)

(4) After a few seconds this page disappears and reverts to
    http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/member.asp but
    before doing so a small window (URL not displayed) which
    dispays the message "a localized version of Launchcast is
    now available in Canada.  Please visit your local Canadian
    Site.  ("Canadian Site" is underlined and is a link to
    who-knows-where which I have as yet not clicked on).  
    Also displayed is "Not from Canada? Click here" which 
    takes you to:
    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/launch/basics/basics-07.html
    Which says:

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Why am I being blocked from accessing LAUNCHcast? 
You received this message because our LAUNCHcast players have detected
that there is a localized version of LAUNCHcast in your country.
Please locate your localized version of LAUNCHcast to continue
listening. If you are not from the country that our IP filtering
detected please email customer care at:
launchcast-feedback@yahoo-inc.com.  

Is this enough information? 
 Great! Click Yes to go back to Yahoo! Music. 
 Click No to contact Yahoo! Customer Care. 
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I clicked no and typed a message which expressed my concern that I
would be fed music dictated by Can-Con (Canadian Content) rules.  I
received what appears to be a boilerplate response (reproduced above)
having something to do with video license rights - which really
doesn't apply to yahoo radio since no video's are displayed in the
small radio interface window.

What makes their answer even more puzzling (and questionable) is that
from http://music.yahoo.com/ if I select the "Music Videos" window, it
opens http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/ and immediately opens a
music video window which begins playing - yes, music videos.  No
prompting about selecting a Canadian version, site or link.

If the reason for the localized Canadian version of Launchcast is to
distribute their server load, why didn't they say so in the message
box or in the response to my question?  Why the cocamamy reason having
to do with video license rights?