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Pandora no longer allows access outside the US

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11 pointsniels_olson11 comments

That's been the case for well over a year now. Digital product distribution has been completely botched by nearly every company recently.

Music services: all region-locked.

Amazon Kindle: region-locked.

Amazon Appstore: region-locked.

Amazon CloudPlayer: region-locked.

Amazon Video on Demand: region-locked.

Android Market: region-locked, often also carrier-locked.

iTunes App Store: region-locked.

I actually can't think of any digital market that ISN'T region-locked anymore. It's ridiculous that you can buy physical items and have them delivered across oceans but online distributors refuse to send you bits if your IP address is in the wrong range.

> Digital product distribution has been completely botched by nearly every company recently.

Is that the case, or is it the legal arms of media industries not ALLOWING distribution except under very specific circumstances? Maybe that's what you're saying here, but it seems like your trying to blame those to distribute, rather than onerous restrictions placed upon them by others.

Kindle is NOT region-locked. I can confirm this since I've moved out of the US and just purchased some books.

Does your 1-click payment method have a US billing address?

Kindle is region locked, certain titles are only available in EU vs AU (these ones I know from experience; Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos being the book in question) and I assume US also.

This, my friend, is the musical industry forcing people not to pay them.

Nor do they allow people with iPads to view any part of their site, even pages presumably unrelated to playing music. Why? Just, just why?

It's as if I've been transported to 2007!

One more reason to ignore all that outmoded copyright crap and just download the music you want to hear.

That happened in July of 2007.

NOT NEWS

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