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[cj1976]

[orosee]

True, true... similar to Wikipedia, I always end up on a page that either has the Table of Elements or something about Calculus... and then another 3-5 clicks to porn!

I just wish I could learn anything NEW from porn (unlike Wikipedia, where there is always something educational only a click away).

[cassimira]

hmmm.... just an update... i think I've narrowed it down somewhat. I have yet to see the pop-up when I use piratebay.org, but a couple of times when piratebay was down I've tried other sites.... and the pop-up seems to be triggered when I initiate the download with one of the other sites (not sure which one, they all have such similar names!). Must be something about that particular site that triggers it.

[Winterkalte]

I got this same pop up two days in row now. Yesterday, when I clicked on a banner ad for a Korean dating site. It happened today when I clicked on a random torrent site. I normally use piratebay and download a TON of movies every night. Never had a problem before.

It seems pretty hypocritical for Korea to against downloading pirated movies considering how many pirated DVDs I can buy on the streets here.

[Silver_Seagull]

I just got this too - this is what google spit out when I typed the text from the image into it...

"Illegal information (site) Block Guide for

The site you are trying to access illegal content are forbidden by law, got access to the site will let you know that this block.

This information through the deliberations of the commission of the Korea Communications Commission concerning the installation and operating under the laws of sludge is blocked legitimate questions or concerns about this below, please contact the responsible agencies."

And my (bad) Korean typography, if anyone cares...

"불법정보(사이트)에 대한 차단 안내

귀하가 접속하려고 하는 사이트는 법률상 금지하는 불법적인 내용을 가지고 있어 해당 사이트에 대한 접속이 차단 되었음을 알려드립니다.

본 정보는 방송통신심의위원회의 심의를 거쳐 방송통신위원회의 설치 및 운영에관한 법률에 따라 적법하게 차단된 것이오니 이에 관한 의문사항이 있으시면 아래해당 담당기관으로 문의하여 주시기 바랍니다."

Hope it eases some worries- I think it's just a generic "this has been blocked" page, nothing sinister.

[hanguker]

[Silver_Seagull]

It doesn't actually say the site- the warning is generic: the text I've copied I copied by hand, because the text is actually an image.

See for yourself: http://warning.or.kr <-- that's the site, and it will have the same text I just pasted.

The translation I posted is just a Google-bot one ("sludge"?), so it's not totally right in grammar and style. But it's overwhelmingly a "this site is blocked, if you think the site has been blocked in error, please contact the agency that it applies to below" message.

Mostly posted it so people don't freak out too bad

[hogwonguy1979]

i've gotten the message when clicking on streaming site for a game (NOT justin.tv or usstream forget which one) and it blocks the stream from starting. making it harder to watch the nba playoffs in english

[Fox]

The message in question is not because of torrent web sites, it's because the torrent web sites try to pop up other websites. As someone else here said, it's either internet gambling or pornography. Don't worry about it, it's just telling you the page is blocked.

[jonpurdy]

Yes, there's nothing to worry about. You're not necessarily being tracked or anything.

However, the extremely worrying thing is that all ISPs in Korea seem to be behind a filter that shows these warnings. Any free country should not have their internet censored in any way. A huge fuss was created when Australia tried to implement internet filtering. Though nobody seems to care here.

[Jandar]

Peer Guardian

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

[Ice Tea]

Now I get it. Fox's reasoning seems pretty sound. If the site we were visiting was blocked then we couldn't access it, but if the ad banner links to a porn or gambling site that is blocked then it appears in place of that ad. Which makes perfect sense. So dictionary.com isn't illegal, it's whatever the ad banner links to that is.

[laguna]