Pandora will be closing its service to UK IPs from January 15th. Due to high royalties. Hopefully, it won't recognise our IPs but I would not bet on it.
When you put the zip code in (I used 90210), that's only one check. The other check they didn't do was reading the physical location of you IP. They can read that and put a block on it, regardless of the zip code you entered.
Submitted by brainwipe on Tue, 2008-01-08 12:12
Bah. Physical location by IP is often fairly ropey. Due to some unusual network setup, Google thinks I'm in France.
Submitted by byrn on Tue, 2008-01-08 12:16
Maybe you could route your connection through a friendly Stateside proxy
Submitted by Evilmatt on Tue, 2008-01-08 12:22
Geoip is getting a lot better these days. Not perfect, but better. http://www.locatetv.com uses a fairly recent implementation of it; if that can guess your location, then I'd give good odds that Pandora will be able to as well.
Finding a friendly proxy might be hard for such a bandwidth intensive task as audio streaming.
Submitted by AggroBoy on Tue, 2008-01-08 12:30
They might start friendly but maybe after a few hundred meg of traffic probably not so ;)
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but I live in Mississippi...
When you put the zip code in (I used 90210), that's only one check. The other check they didn't do was reading the physical location of you IP. They can read that and put a block on it, regardless of the zip code you entered.
Bah. Physical location by IP is often fairly ropey. Due to some unusual network setup, Google thinks I'm in France.
Maybe you could route your connection through a friendly Stateside proxy
Geoip is getting a lot better these days. Not perfect, but better. http://www.locatetv.com uses a fairly recent implementation of it; if that can guess your location, then I'd give good odds that Pandora will be able to as well.
Finding a friendly proxy might be hard for such a bandwidth intensive task as audio streaming.
They might start friendly but maybe after a few hundred meg of traffic probably not so ;)