Popular file-hosting service Zippyshare is unavailable throughout the UK.Contrary to widespread rumors, ISPs are not responsible for the blockade.
Instead, it appears that Zippyshare itself is actively blocking UK visitors, intentionally or not. Without any official word from the operators, the question remains; why. Use Zippyshare Download Portals NotThere are also significant numbers hailing from the UK, where it is one of the most-used download portals not currently blocked by a High Court order. Instead of the usual download page, they are welcomed by a 403 forbidden error message in their browsers. Some people have used it for over a decade, but that recently came to an abrupt end. VideoLock and Digital Copyright both mentioned the issue on Twitter. The latter initially suspected an ISP block, it seems, which would be a surprise as Zippyshare has always been extremely cooperative. This suspicion even made it into the Wikipedia entry, as Bob spotted, although it was deleted soon after, probably for good reason. And since users of UK based VPN IP-addresses see the same error message, theres clearly something else going on. To find out more, TorrentFreak reached out to Zippyshare at the beginning of this week but, thus far, we havent heard back. One possibility is that Zippyshare took this step after some kind of legal pressure. Two years ago, several stream-rippers also blocked UK traffic, presumably over legal concerns. In any case, no matter whos initiating the blockade, theres always a way around it. UK visitors can still access the site from a non-UK VPN server.
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