Comment by Fornax96
6 hours ago
Creator of pixeldrain here. I have no idea why my site is blocked in Spain, but it's a long running issue.
I actually never discovered who was responsible for the blockade, until I read this comment. I'm going to look into Allot and send them an email.
EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.
> EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.
Yeah, that was via my ISPs DNS resolver (Vodafone), switching the resolver works :)
The responsible party is ultimately our government who've decided it's legal to block a wide range of servers and websites because some people like to watch illegal football streams. I think Allot is just the provider of the technology.
My site has nothing to do with football though. And Allot seems to be running the DNS server that your ISP uses so they are directly responsible for the block.
La Liga (the football company) likes to send out takedown notices to anyone who may host anything that looks like a football to protect their precious games, no matter the collateral damage or the lack of any requirements to show damage. They have the right to block anything in Spain at their discretion either by DNS or IP. They do seem to work in good faith if you talk to them, though, and if you can either remove sites or content when they ask.
The Spanish courts have allowed la Liga to completely ban every website served by cloudflare during days where there are matches. All Spanish ISPs have to do dns blocking to comply.
Could it be that some site in your network neighborhood was illegally streaming soccer matches?
I have my own dedicated IP range. And they specifically blocked my domain name, not the addresses. I don't know what the reason is. I have been trying to find out since the start of this year.