Pandora to Limit their Service to U.S users ONLY!
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All non-U.S Pandora users, you have only one day left to enjoy this great service. This is by far the most saddest news I've ever heard in regards to Web2.0 services.
Pandora has some issues regarding rights lately that were solved only in the U.S for now. The only "comfort" I could find on Mike's blog is this paragraph:
Read the all story on TechCrunch.
Update! How to access Pandora from outside the U.S via LifeHacker.
(Thanks Val)
All non-U.S Pandora users, you have only one day left to enjoy this great service. This is by far the most saddest news I've ever heard in regards to Web2.0 services.
Pandora has some issues regarding rights lately that were solved only in the U.S for now. The only "comfort" I could find on Mike's blog is this paragraph:
"I spoke with CTO Tom Conrad this evening about the change. He says Pandora has been working on international rights deals for nearly two years now, and they hope to have enough deals done in the UK and Canada to launch in those countries soon. Other markets will take longer, he says."Bummer :(
Read the all story on TechCrunch.
Update! How to access Pandora from outside the U.S via LifeHacker.
(Thanks Val)
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I just tried loading up Pandora now, and it works fine (and streams audio) - and I'm in England on a UK ISP. a few weeks ago I registered and said I was in the US though, and I'm logged in on the site, so that might make a difference.
If they're using geoip-based solutions to filter requests to US only, it might be faulty or there might be holes (and I might've slipped through one of them), so who knows... Best try every week or so, see if I still have access.
The proxying solution is nothing more than a stopgap - the servers dry up, or cap their bandwidth, and you're back to square one. I'm fortunate enough to have a US-based server which I can SSH onto and use Linux's built-in proxy tunneling features with Bitvise Tunnelier to act as a US-based socks proxy server, and that works every time because all my internet traffic resolves to a US IP address :) Quite handy for viewing US-only sites, especially the ones like Showtime's site.
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