Websites Blocking Europeans and Other Countries
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Don’t you think that is a bit racist to block or ban Europeans and other continents of the world like Veoh, MTV and bunch more do? I totally agree with Mashable’s Topic “How To Make Your Users Hate You“. I really don’t get it!
Why would Live Crunch block visitors from let say Africa? or Pakistan ? What did they do to me? They click on advertising same as USA(Americans) or Russians do if its because of “advertising”. I understand that people like to focus on their website audience but for God Sake don’t fu***ing block others to view your website.
Imagine you are born in USA you lived in USA all your life, you get called to work in Germany for 4 years, and you are big fan of MTV. Now you are in Germany and guess what? You can’t see sh**!
I don’t care if it’s website from Europe blocking USA and Iraq or reverse, either way it’s WRONG at least in my opinion and millions of others!
PS: It’s easy to bypass those racist MOFO’s just by adding proxy 
Tell me is that FAIR?
Doesn’t that practice violate the basic principles that made the web the force it is today? It is the very global, inclusive nature of the internet that has created exponential growth for businesses, blogs, websites etc. If you start choosing who can and cannot view your content (on a public website) you are only hurting yourself!
I hate to break it to ya… but after all – it IS their website(s). I am fairly sure that there is a logical reason for this. Perhaps the countries, themselves, are blocking certain websites…
@Doug Quance: Understandable ( is their website(s)) but then again, let say you read NYT every day, you go to Paris suddenly you can’t view it because its blocking France. Would that piss you off?
From what I’ve seen, it all has to do with copyrights. But it sucks. I would happily watch TV shows legally through the networks or a service like Hulu, but since they don’t work for me (I live in Chile) I end up on sites that I’m sure are not giving revenue back to the programs. Globalize or lose money and viewers, simple as that.