One of the more annoying things about the Big 9 media copyright rules for those that live outside American borders are the inane release rules. More specifically, services like Hulu and Pandora have been restricted to US citizens only. In the case of Pandora, "the royalties that are required to be paid to artists and their labels in the UK and elsewhere make providing an ad-support web radio service infeasible." In the case of Hulu, it's simply the major media being jerks to non-Americans.
Either way, Mashable reader Denis Hiller sent in this tip-off of something profiled at CoolBlog: a tool called Hotspot Shield. The program works to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that prevents websites from seeing that you're outside the site, and according to usage reports, doesn't diminish connection speeds (or put you at risk for spyware, a danger from other run-of-the-mill web proxies).