MPAA site offline
p2p news / p2pnet: Has the MPAA fallen into a black hole?
We just surfed over to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) media site at http://www.mpaa.org/MPAAPress/index.htm to check out the latest PR drivel and got:
The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
So we went to http://www.mpaa.org/MPAAPress/ and saw, "The page cannot be found".
http://www.mpaa.org was next and, Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)
Interesting …….
January 13th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
http://www.mpaa.org/ works for me. The other two URLs http://www.mpaa.org/MPAAPress/index.htm and http://www.mpaa.org/MPAAPress/ result in a 404 not found error.
January 13th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
yeh http://www.mpaa.org/ is back
January 13th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Yup. It’s there now and it looks like it’s had a face-lift.
Cheers!
January 13th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
http://www.surfcontrol.com/
did you know that your site is considered to be high risk by surf control as they block all access to it through my company internet proxy??
just thought you would appreciate being filtered
cheers jon
January 13th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Hi:
I’ve just emailed them asking why that is.
Stay tuned : )
Cheers! And thanks …
January 14th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
What you find out about this from the MPAA just make a good story to put on it’s own page, Jon??? Have you tried the RIAA site lately?…just a thougt
January 15th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Well it looks like they can block sites based on the blocking desired of the person who installs the software. Here are a few I tested.
p2pnet.net is in our list and categorized as Proxies & Translators
slyck.com is in our list and categorized as Computing & Internet
ipchicken.com is in our list and categorized as Computing & Internet
zeropaid.com is in our list and categorized as Proxies & Translators
http://www.eff.org/ is in our list and categorized as Reference
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ is in our list and categorized as Blogs & Forums
fifthnail.blogspot.com/ is in our list and categorized as Blogs & Forums
ogrish.com is in our list and categorized as Violence
nambla.org is in our list and categorized as Adult/Sexually Explicit
gmhc.org is in our list and categorized as Society & Culture
2600.com is in our list and categorized as Hacking
shareaza.com is in our list and categorized as Proxies & Translators