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No images for baltic countries
posted by kostiaSTAFFMOD on March 17, 2014 at 3:41 AM
Hallo, maybe someone know why i cant see images from themoviedb.org? Month ago everything works well, but now i cant see any images of films. Is my county blocked?
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 17, 2014 at 10:02 AM
What country are you in specifically?
We're aware of some issues in Russia. It seems our CDN provider has been on and off the country wide blacklist. We're looking into this.
In the meantime, could clarify is non-SSL images seem to work? Here's two links, do either of them work?
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/d4kPMHsoTEH3FIkBDJM0uVOlas6.jpg
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/d4kPMHsoTEH3FIkBDJM0uVOlas6.jpg
Reply by Anton
on March 17, 2014 at 11:57 AM
That's right. I'm currently in Russia and both links don't work for me either.
It says that the access to the requested resource is limited.
I believe you are right, the problem is that CDN provider blocks the content from your server.
Reply by kostia
on March 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM
I am from Lithuania, no, both links doesnt work
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 17, 2014 at 2:01 PM
Does Lithuania use Russia's country-wide Internet blacklist?
Reply by Anton
on March 17, 2014 at 2:24 PM
I think they do, I can see on different Russian forums that Lithuania's Internet users complain as well. The reason is the same - it's connected to the new anti piracy law in Russia.
Maybe they found tmdb.org contains materials which infringe copyright somehow.
Reply by blablazzz
on March 18, 2014 at 2:23 AM
Lithuania doesnt use any Russian black lists. In Lithuania all internet content is free without any censorship. I live in Lithuania i it started on March 15th. Before that everything was working without problems.
Reply by fedorzima
on March 18, 2014 at 5:06 AM
Russia. The same problem. http://tmdb.org - now I can't load the page. In the office: internet prodiver showed me information that this web site was blocked. I asked him, and they said that this web site have the same IP address as blocked web site 2chan.org(not sure about name, I can't find email of provider).
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM
If Lithuania doesn't use Russia's country-wide blacklist, I'm not sure what the cause would be. The only country I had ever heard of anything happening with until yesterday was Russia. For you Lithuania users, when you go straight to the image above, is there an error of any kind? Something that says the host is blocked "because...?"
Our images are hosted on CloudFlare, but the rest of our infrastructure is with Amazon's AWS service. That's why only the images are affected.
We're looking into options and will update this thread when we have more information.
Reply by kostia
on March 18, 2014 at 10:27 AM
this is how i am seeing this page: http://s18.postimg.org/cnnedvyp3/movie.png ( the same on: mozilla, opera, chrome) 2 -3 weeks before everything works well.
Reply by peretenko
on March 19, 2014 at 3:22 AM
A message from Russia:
TMDB is now blocked here altogether.
http://cl.ly/image/3W1O2W441T0s
«Уважаемые пользователи!
Мы приносим свои извинения, но доступ к запрашиваемому ресурсу ограничен.
Возможные причины ограничения доступа:
Доступ ограничен по решению суда или по иным основаниям, установленным законодательством Российской Федерации.
Сетевой адрес, позволяющий идентифицировать сайт в сети «Интернет», включен в Единый Реестр доменных имен, указателей страниц сайтов сети «Интернет» и сетевых адресов, позволяющих идентифицировать сайты в сети «Интернет», содержащие информацию, распространение которой в Российской Федерации запрещено.
Проверить наличие сетевого адреса в Едином реестре можно в разделе «Просмотр реестра» на сайте www.zapret-info.gov.ru.
Сетевой адрес, позволяющий идентифицировать сайт в сети «Интернет», включен в Реестр доменных имен, указателей страниц сайтов в сети «Интернет» и сетевых адресов, позволяющих идентифицировать сайты в сети «Интернет», содержащие информацию, распространяемую с нарушением исключительных прав.
Проверить наличие сетевого адреса в Реестре можно в разделе «Просмотр реестра» на сайте nap.rkn.gov.ru.»
Maybe that's because of The Eternal Jew (1940 film). It's banned here and any site mentioning that this film exists gets banned as well.
Our government is building Great Russian Firewall, no jokes.
Reply by blablazzz
on March 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM
In Lithuania, page www.themoviedb.org is opening with all content but without any pictures. Meanwhile, www.tmdb.org is not opening at all.
Reply by peretenko
on March 19, 2014 at 4:10 AM
More info.
if you search for 162.159.250.184 on http://eais.rkn.gov.ru, you see the following:
Proposal date proposal ID organisation Actual banning date 05.01.2014 16833-URL-on Роскомнадзор 15.01.2014 10.01.2014 17004-URL-on Роскомнадзор 12.03.2014
Reply by fedorzima
on March 19, 2014 at 4:55 AM
I found the answer of my internet provider about why tmdb.org was blocked:
" Заблокирован сайт 7chan.org, который имеют IP-адреса точно такие же, что и tmdb.org Мы блокируем по актуальным IP адресам, поэтому блокируются все сайты расположенные на этих IP адресах. В настоящее время так делают почти все операторы, в т.ч. вышестоящие у нас. Мы подумаем, как разрешить эту проблему."
Google translate "Blocked site 7chan.org, which are IP-addresses are the same, and that tmdb.org We block on the actual IP address, so all sites are blocked located on these IP addresses. At the moment so do almost all operators, including upstream from us. We will think about how to solve this problem."
Reply by blablazzz
on March 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM
Everything OK now in lithuania :) thanks
Reply by kostia
on March 19, 2014 at 6:16 PM
no, it still doesn`t work in Lithuania. No images