Comment by thaumasiotes
8 days ago
> They used to be available everywhere, but locked off international audiences when laws became inconvenient.
The coverage I could find suggested that they were available in three total countries: the USA, Australia, and New Zealand.
So there was no point at which they locked out "international audiences". They had a branch in Australia, and they closed it.
From 2005-2007 it was available everywhere. It was a purely US operation, but the internet is international unless you take active steps to stop it.
In 2007 the copyright lawyers caught up with them and they locked it to US IP addresses: https://mashable.com/archive/pandora-international
Australia-specific operations were 2012-2017.