Almost every internet freak who is interested in music, audio or listening to free online radiois mostly aware of Last.fm. Last.fm is a free online radio with loads of music and was free for a long time. Recently they announced that users outside US, UK and Germany need to pay a subscription fee of $3 to listen to online radio. This is a bad news for music lovers online and here I have provided a way to hack last.fm.
If you love their service, please subscribe them by paying. If you are a new user, you may use this way to test their service, and if you love it, please purchase. To make it clear, this is not a hack, but I am making use of an available feature in order to clear the blocked way of accessing the free service.
Pick an anonymous proxy server from US / UK / Germany [these are the locations where last.fm is free now] from this proxy list. Note that this is not same as twitter proxy.
Open Last.fm client. Tools > Options > Connection.
Now, choose the manual setting and paste the proxy detail from the list.
Done. You are now anonymising yourself as a user from that country and hence the last.fm servers serve you with free online internet radio.
Note: This tutorial is for education purpose, please purchase if you are not included in freeregion. Alternatively you may use free internet radio with winamp.
I use an older version of the os x scrobbler that doesn't seem to check my location, and I've been listening to Last.fm from outside of the three countries for over a year now :) Try to find a version of Last.fm with the following version number (or earlier): 1.5.3.45507.
The iPhone app also works (sorta, crashes a lot) up to version 2.4 outside of the three. Not sure about version 3 or later.