About stuff » Anonymity http://dgiakoumakis.wordpress.com Just another weblog for geeks... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/5003c598556767e16f4ed095d37654ab?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png About stuff » Anonymity http://dgiakoumakis.wordpress.com Listening to Pandora from outside the US http://dgiakoumakis.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/listening-to-pandora-from-outside-the-us/ http://dgiakoumakis.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/listening-to-pandora-from-outside-the-us/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:10:36 +0000 dgiakoumakis http://dgiakoumakis.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/listening-to-pandora-from-outside-the-us/ ]]>

I was using Pandora for more than a year while working in the UK and I was really sad when I found out that I had to stop using it when I moved to Greece due to licensing constraints.

Pandora - IP BLOCKED

I didn’t give up. I did some research on proxy servers and web anonymity and I was really happy to discover a cool set of tools that could do the job. Those tools are FoxyProxy (firefox addon), Tor & Vidalia (it is included in Tor). Installation and Setup is simple and it takes a few minutes if you follow the steps below.
After installing the above tools I had to run Vidalia (which is basically a controller UI for Tor) have a look at the network and select a few available US servers with decent latency.
Vidalia - Network map
Then I had to add those servers to the torrc configuration file which can be accessed from the Start menu (\Start \Programs\Vidalia Bundle\Tor). Please not that the first 3 lines in the following notepad screen-grab are actually 1 since word wrap in on.
Torrc Configuration File
The last thing I had to do was to configure FoxyProxy and add the following patterns:
FoxyProxy Configuration

After finishing all the above steps I was able to listen to my favourite radio stations. My next goal is to access BBC’s iPlayer from Greece. :)

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If you have any questions please feel free to post a comment.

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