globalPandora - Pandora for the rest of us

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globalPandora - Pandora for the rest of us

by Jason Clarke Jan 13th 2008

The box is open.

That's the tagline that greets you when you visit globalPandora, which touts itself as a way that people that are not located in the United States can access the free music streaming service Pandora without having to futz with a web proxy service. Though they don't explain how this magical trick is accomplished, it's likely that Global Pandora is simply acting as an invisible proxy and delivering up the Pandora interface.

First things first: It works, at least from here in Canada. We haven't been able to verify from other non-U.S. locations, but since Pandora is most definitely blocked here in the Great White North, we feel pretty comfortable that it will work elsewhere.

Now, enjoy it while it lasts, because it's extremely unlikely that globalPandora will be allowed to exist for much longer. On the other hand, now that it's been done once, it's pretty likely that once it is shut down, globalPandora clones will pop up to replace it. Music - and all data, really - that is free somewhere will eventually be free everywhere.

[via gHacks]

Tags: free-music, global-pandora, globalPandora, Pandora, proxy, streaming-music, web-proxy

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Christoph said 4:20PM on 1-13-2008

works from Europe/ Switzerland. Great!

LeSven said 4:21PM on 1-13-2008

Germany works fine :) Thanks!

Xell said 4:41PM on 1-13-2008

Works from the UK

DivinoAG said 5:05PM on 1-13-2008

Also works nicelly from Brazil. Thanks a lot for the link ;)

santino said 5:09PM on 1-13-2008

Sweeeet! Works great from Madrid, Spain. :)

Pierre said 5:21PM on 1-13-2008

Yup, works in the Netherlands without a problem.

TIM said 5:24PM on 1-13-2008

IL working great :)
god bless you

Pierre said 5:34PM on 1-13-2008

I got a "Register Now" window though after about 15 minutes. It requires me to register using a US zip.
After that still music though, doesn't even need mail verification or existing mail address.

TEILLU said 5:36PM on 1-13-2008

It works 100% lovely fine here from Spain, too; thanx for the announce!

kristof.hajdu said 5:41PM on 1-13-2008

Works from Hungary as well, although I registered before the whole copyright BS took place...

Anthony said 6:14PM on 1-13-2008

Working fine here in the British Virgin Island.
Thanks for the heads up

Fox318 said 8:23PM on 1-13-2008

Works here in New Jersey.....wait

orbitant said 9:59PM on 1-13-2008

works great with my old account here in Singapore... thanks!

jeddco said 3:12AM on 1-14-2008

works in New Zealand. sweet as...

henrik said 4:22AM on 1-14-2008

It works in Denmark too.

Leo M. said 5:50PM on 1-14-2008

seconded, works for me here in Vejle, DK

henrik said 4:22AM on 1-14-2008

...and it even works with my old account, username and password. And my playlists are stille there!

phizm said 5:24AM on 1-14-2008

Any proper ideas on how this works people?

Atanas Boev said 7:01AM on 1-14-2008

works in Finland. I can logon with my old account, which I did... well while I was in Denver :)

idodialog said 8:15AM on 1-14-2008

works fine in australia - so nice to have my stations back after so long!

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