> I'm living in switzerland and until yesterday i've been able to listen
> to lastfm on my squeezeboxes pretending that i'm living in germany (i'm
> talking about my msb account where you install your applications). Now
> if i switch to lastfm on my squeezebox it says 'Sorry! Last.fm Radio is
> not currently available in your country'. In fact that's not true, i
> still can access my swiss(!) lastfm account directly through their
> website and i'm able to listen my radio station via browser.
> It's just logitech who does not provide the lastfm service to their
> swiss customers and never did before. The trick pretending being from
> germany just does not work anymore.

We were tasked by Last.fm to filter access by IP address (GeoIP) instead of the 
country setting only.

> The only thing that helps now is
> that logitech (a swiss company at least in the beginning) gets a
> license agreement with lastfm to be able to provide this service right
> away in switzerland as well.

Unfortunately this is not up to Logitech, but Last.fm. They have to find a deal 
with SUISA or whomever. We do support all countries Last.fm allows us to 
support. There's no interest at all (for us) to limit what we could do.

-- 

Michael
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