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Archives for April 11th, 2006

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Why does PutFile hate Slovenia?

I used to have an account at PutFile, which is a "free digital media service" for hosting videos. I first found out about it from the wildly popular Slovenian site Izklop, which used to upload a lot of stuff there. But when I recently tried to log in, I discovered that my account was no more:

Due to persistent abuse we regret we are no longer accepting uploads from your region at this time.

Ouch. The whole region? What could’ve happened that they had to blanket-ban the whole country and possibly beyond? I wrote to Andrej at Izklop, assuming that one of their videos had pushed PutFile over the edge, but he had "no idea" about it.

I also wanted to ask PutFile what happened, and inquire into their "collective punishment" policy, which — by the way — violates Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions (besides being a totally asshole-ish thing to do) but I couldn’t. You have to login to ask a question, and I can’t. So that was that. The end.

Luckily there are plenty of great alternatives, so to hell with them.

Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 to Slovenia ¦ Comments (11)