listening to foreign radio via the net
 

Sometimes I like to follow sporting events (such as soccer matches) from Europe via radio broadcasts available on the net. Sometimes, however, I will get a message saying "Available to UK subscribers only" and being in Canada I cannot listen in. This is usually due to some licensing arrangement for international broadcast rights (but does not mean that a North American broadcaster is actually carrying the game, so I'm shut out). :(

Is there a way to fool the main broadcaster (lets say the BBC) into thinking my computer is in the UK, rather than North America, so I can listen in?

I was just wondering the same thing, only with purchasing music from online sites like iTunes.

For much of the same reasons (international licensing agreements) I cannot access as much music as I would like to do.

by changing proxy settings i believe. i did it once and it worked.(for a site that only accepted asian) but it's hard to setup the 1st time.

OK, if anyone has any insight on how to do this, it would be appreciated.

Try taking a peek at Tor. I've used it briefly in the past. I don't recall whether or not you can choose country of origin for your endpoint, but it's a good starting point to begin looking into such things.