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Stopped lurking because of this issue. I'm a foreigner living in Korea, so the site is blocked for me as well, though free VPNs easily bypass the issue.

To explain the situation, e-h.g was blocked by most all Korean ISPs ages ago by government order and ex was, for a little while, a safe haven or last bastion for koreans looking for doujins, after several translation groups were issued police summons after their work which they hosted on their own blogs and servers was somehow considered "production of illicit materials" despite that they were only translating text. The sudden influx of Korean translations on the galleries is because of that and because Korean censors were unable to bypass the sadpanda image that displays for people not in the know of how to get in for a long while.

Yesterday at approximately 10PM Japan time, ex was blocked by the South Korean censors for anyone living on the peninsula with the exception of one ISP, Korea Telecoms or KT, though that's not likely to continue as the blocking is ordered by the government who has an agenda against pornography.

As to why pornography is being blocked, there was a case a few years back where a man was charged with raping (and if I remember correctly) killing a child. He then went on to blame pornography. Sex crimes were the next hot thing on the news for a short period after that. Incensed by this, various lobbyist groups in South Korea including the Women's & Childrens' Rights board and fundamentalist Christian groups pushed to have pornography banned under the grounds that it makes men into rapists. Though this is all despite the fact that the prostitution business is more than thriving here. More info regarding the block available here: [www.usatoday.com] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2...a-porn/1758277/

Sites that have been blocked include fakku.net, danbooru.donmai.us, konachan, "normal" 3d porn sites, and others. The amount keeps rising. The funny thing is, is that the blocking is initiated by parents or people actively searching the web for porn to report to an "internet police". It's rather safe to assume that some idiot in South Korea got caught by their parents or teachers browsing the site and the site was reported and thereby blocked.

If there's one thing I've observed though, mirrors are more or less ignored by the censors, ie hijiribe.donmai.us for danbooru, so if a mirror site could be made, people in South Korea might be able to still access the site. It may just be that changes in the url are able to bypass the block.

Unfortunately, until there's an alternative to ex found, or some exception made to the VPN rule for uploading, the Korean doujin scanlation scene is more or less going to be killed off because of the block.

I think it'd be great if a system were put in place to allow Korean groups to contact the admins to have exceptions made for the VPN group, but I can't really speak for them, nor do I really know how to get in contact with said scanlation groups. If someone who's better in the know regarding the Korean scanlators could let me know who to contact regarding this, I would not be against acting as an intermediary to help alleviate this issue if at all necessary. Though that's really entirely up to the site admins as to whether or not they'd want to help.

Thanks for reading.

This post has been edited by LURKING_BASTARD: Dec 5 2013, 16:27

Fuck parents and moralfags, they ruin everything, they ruin the world, not just porn.

A criminal is a criminal, you just have it or not. Blaming the media entertainment is a moronic way to hide the fact that people
are plain stupid & also an advantage for government to exterminate the free internet. Christians, atheists and any other sheep
in society are just pawns of propaganda. When this whole "child concern" bullshit ends, every adult; will access porn sites for an
additional fee or make purchases to follow anti-piracy, it's just a matter of time.

Rent a private server in another country, whose IP isn't on e-hentai's list of VPN provider IPs. Set up said server to work as a private proxy for you, and use that for uploading.

Or just start a thread in the translations board where you can ask people to up things for you. Since they get GP, they'll probably do it.

e-hentai bans uploader who uses 'fake ip' like proxy, tor...

While this makes sense in general, it's unnecessary to ban good uploaders for using suspicious IPs. Draft proposal: Introduce a concept of "verified uploaders" who are allowed to use poxies. Find a practical way to select users to promote.

Someone more familiar with the community, work this out to a real proposal and put it under Tenboro's nose.

While this makes sense in general, it's unnecessary to ban good uploaders for using suspicious IPs.

It doesn't, actually..

Using Tor might be a bit iffy since idiots tend to get the endpoint nodes banned, but VPN or a private proxy should work fine.

You guys basically built 1gbps fiber lines to play starcaft with 3ms lag and you're telling me proxy is slow?

Ok then...

nope. we usually use 100mbps internet service.

1gbps internet service is start last month only available in a specific area (ex. kangnam).

VPN or a private proxy should work fine.

What about free public proxies?

BTW, is there a reason the site is not accessible by IPv6? That would probably help the koreans.

What about free public proxies?

Well, outside of the fact that they could steal your login session, it depends how many people try to use it. I'd recommend just paying for one, preferably one with your own IP.

BTW, is there a reason the site is not accessible by IPv6? That would probably help the koreans.

Lack of IPv6 support for most of the H@H clients. Overall immaturity of the Linux IPv6 stack - there have been numerous serious remotely exploitable bugs in recent months. Besides, it wouldn't really help, if they block the A record you can bet that they block the AAAA record as well.

ZenMate Chrome

i'm a korean user. i used this site for several years.

some might know, the korean gov censors web sites. if you go to censored site, you may see warning.or.kr.

korean gov censored e-hentai gallery. it censored many other sites before, but today the fucking gov censored here!. it was like the last precious site, but it dead.

Not only your country, my country also bans e-hentai by default.

But you can always get passed all the censorship though (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Maybe it was a conspiracy by the people that wanted to ban all Korean users, so they reported the site to the Korean internet police.

A country without porn, is destined to perish... Just awaits chaos.

try VPN?

too bad

Yes, fucking Koreans.

Time to move to North Korea, quickly!

Enjoy your Kim Jong Un.

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