How to hide ip: SourceForge Blocked Users From Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba

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SourceForge Blocked Users From Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:17 AM PST One of the biggest sites for open source software developers SourceForge.net blocked Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba, as Arab Crunch reports. It seems that the ban was initiated by the US government authorities in order to put the developers from "black list" countries in the dark, not allowing them to contribute to open source development. Bellow you can see the message the users from the above mentioned countries see when they try to download an open source project. The SourceForge.net Terms of Use (the most people never read) contains the following statements: Prohibited Persons You represent you are not a person on a list barring you from receiving services under U.S. laws or other applicable jurisdiction, including without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and other lists issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, detailed at http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/ListsToCheck.htm (or successor sites thereto). Users residing in countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post Content to, or access Content available through, SourceForge.net. The blocking event took place in January 2010, almost simultaneously with the US secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech about Internet freedom where she reported that "all of humanity has equal access to innovations, knowledge and ideas". Ya, right! The same ArabCrunch reported this week that SourceForge somehow reconsidered the ban by allowing project admins to unblock them, if they " conclude that the project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions". How to unblock SourceForge There are several methods you can use to unblock SourceForge. The main idea is to hide your real IP address and access SorceForge with a US IP. The most handy solution is Hotspot Shield but you can use any other hide ip tool or VPN service. Here, on How-to-hide-ip.info, we often host giveaways and special offers. So, you are in need of such a service, keep an eye on How-to-hide-ip.info. Post from: How to hide ip SourceForge Blocked Users From Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba Related Posts: International users blocked by government control Internet users in Iran use Tor to circumvent censorship Google Chrome Bugs Out Users Seeking Anonimity

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