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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by tocomment on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @02:16PM (#3915682)
Why would websites block access from ec2?
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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by codexon on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @03:07PM (#3915919)
Because you can spin up a new ip for a couple of cents to avoid bans.
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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by jacquesm on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @04:52PM (#3916306)
- 0 sales

- lots of headaches

- badly behaved bots

- griefers

- ban avoiders

- wanna-be hackers aka script kiddies

Why would one not want to block access to a website from ec2?

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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by burgerbrain on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @02:54PM (#3915870)
No idea. Last time I bothered trying Stack Overflow did though. (That was a while ago, when it was still called that.)
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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by ef4 on Saturday May 05, 2012 @11:18AM (#3932283)
Yeah, the whole Stack Overflow family of websites blocks EC2.

Other examples include Yelp and Bank of America.

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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by simonbrown on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @05:46PM (#3916525)
It's still called stackoverflow (?).
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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN by burgerbrain on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:08PM (#3917152)
Oh. I thought they switched to stackexchange or something stupid like that. Whichever, I don't use the site much.
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