Are Virgin blocking Rapidshare downloads

I started downloading from Rapidshare today at 16.30 PM and all of a sudden the file downloads were blocked, and when I changed my IP address to a server in the USA, the files were there.
When I changed back to my Virgin ISP they were blocked again?
A case of big brother in action here.

Someone probably put something on the servers that fell foul of the IWF list

Depending on how an ISP implements the list you can see more than the intended download/image being blocked.

The people I deal with, rename all the files so the content is not known and it is impossible to know what is in each .rar file.
I did complain to Virgin about this a couple of years ago and they stated that excessive downloading from Rapidshare was treated as a DDOS attack.

All of a sudden they are back again...very strange!

Edited by TheBluesBrother (Wed 13-May-09 17:12:24)

Rapidshare does show up with issues on various providers

IWF
Rapidshare
Provider issues

are the three issues, i.e. its one of those popular services that seems to vanish now and then

Are you using the netgear router VM gave you?

rapidshare.com is no longer being blocked by Virgin Media. The downloads that I had pending from rapidshare are now complete.

Edit: My downloads completed and I was able to access rapidshare.com but only for about an hour

Edited by GoanRonney (Fri 14-May-10 05:02:22)

Rapidshare is fine now both for access and to download for me.

I've only been on VM a week so don't know past history but at one time during that week I saw a persistent "your IP is already downloading" and a search showed that VM sometimes use a transparent proxy (probably IWF related).

Proxies set up to block the IWF list in fact block nothing from the pervs (as a foreign proxy bypasses the ISP one) and inconveniences many. The IWF is just another useless waste of money quango who are answerable to nobody. Junking them now they are set up would be political suicide though so you'll just have to lump it (or buy a RS premium account).

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I just tried a different file and that won't work - it's maybe just some of the servers as RS home page is reachable.

Edited by kwikbreaks (Fri 14-May-10 09:07:34)

Hmmm... first post for Goanrooney and it's 1 year and 1 day later... hehehe

VM (or at least NTL and Telewest) used to use caching proxy but claimed to have dropped them about 2-3 years ago, but recently I too have found a couple of site showing my IP as a VM labelled proxy and I too came to the conclusion it was for IWF.

Edited by deleted (Fri 14-May-10 14:37:25)

I have noticed if I start USENET after 12-13GB on 50MB I get put down to 5mbps but then it is fine for everything else

Is that a continious 12-13GB or over a period of time?