Comments on: Banned from Pandora internet radio station http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/ Your daily IT cuppa Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/comment-page-1/#comment-5969 Jack Hughes Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:15:46 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/#comment-5969 @Aura - the idea is that, if you use a service like strongvpn, it will look like you are from the USA so pandora will let you use their service. @Aura – the idea is that, if you use a service like strongvpn, it will look like you are from the USA so pandora will let you use their service.

]]> By: Aura http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/comment-page-1/#comment-5965 Aura Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:56:31 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/#comment-5965 How does http://www.strongvpn.com work as I can't listen to pandora either? How does http://www.strongvpn.com work as I can’t listen to pandora either?

]]> By: Michael Asoke http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/comment-page-1/#comment-5786 Michael Asoke Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:31:01 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/#comment-5786 If you have just found that your IP is banned since you are not in the USA, get a VPN account at http://www.strongvpn.com I was blocked, got the account.. connected with no degradation in speed... and was in business again! It's a great solution. If you have just found that your IP is banned since you are not in the USA, get a VPN account at http://www.strongvpn.com I was blocked, got the account.. connected with no degradation in speed… and was in business again! It’s a great solution.

]]> By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/comment-page-1/#comment-5720 Jack Hughes Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:21:49 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/#comment-5720 @Alan - Happy new year Alan. He does sound upset and I don't blame him. As somebody who really enjoys the physical shopping experience, I don't think the internet has added much to my music enjoyment. If it were a toss up between shops and the internet I would go for record shops. Physical products are nicer to buy, it doesn't feel the same buying on iTunes. I suspect I'm just showing my age...I used to love flicking through albums in musty smelling second hand record stores. Same with books. Digital products just don't have as good an experience. @Alan – Happy new year Alan. He does sound upset and I don’t blame him. As somebody who really enjoys the physical shopping experience, I don’t think the internet has added much to my music enjoyment. If it were a toss up between shops and the internet I would go for record shops. Physical products are nicer to buy, it doesn’t feel the same buying on iTunes. I suspect I’m just showing my age…I used to love flicking through albums in musty smelling second hand record stores. Same with books. Digital products just don’t have as good an experience.

]]> By: Alan http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/comment-page-1/#comment-5719 Alan Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:29:58 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/banned-from-pandora-internet-radio-station/#comment-5719 Blimey - he sounds really pissed off... I hadn't heard of Pandora before, but this is just yet another sad consequence of the - what seem to me - totally crazy and off-our-planet ideas that the music/film industry come up with to try and screw their customers. Did you hear about Sony's new stand on non-DRM music? (See this post by Glyn Moody: <a href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/confirmed-sony-is-barking.html" rel="nofollow">http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/confirmed-sony-is-barking.html</a>) They are going to start selling DRM free music for download, but, YOU HAVE TO GO TO A PHYSICAL SHOP FIRST, choose the album, you then buy a plastic card with a code on it, then you can go home and download your DRM free music! The Radio thing could be easily worked around by some judicious use of tunnelling so the industries' plans will almost certainly be rendered obsolete yet again before their ink is dry... They just don't seem to get the Internet enabled, digital world we all live in now. Happy New Year Jack, Alan Blimey – he sounds really pissed off…

I hadn’t heard of Pandora before, but this is just yet another sad consequence of the – what seem to me – totally crazy and off-our-planet ideas that the music/film industry come up with to try and screw their customers.

Did you hear about Sony’s new stand on non-DRM music? (See this post by Glyn Moody: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/confirmed-sony-is-barking.html) They are going to start selling DRM free music for download, but, YOU HAVE TO GO TO A PHYSICAL SHOP FIRST, choose the album, you then buy a plastic card with a code on it, then you can go home and download your DRM free music!

The Radio thing could be easily worked around by some judicious use of tunnelling so the industries’ plans will almost certainly be rendered obsolete yet again before their ink is dry… They just don’t seem to get the Internet enabled, digital world we all live in now.

Happy New Year Jack,

Alan

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