![]() Apparently, an ISP in New Zealand is proxying their users automatically, even if the user doesn't set a proxy in the browser config, which lead to believe that we intentionally blocked the whole New Zealand for any reason, which is of course is not true.Again, this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with piracy control. How these would be related at all, considering that the only thing that is downloadable on our web site is a FREE Trial ? You might have had a point if we had some hidden downloads available only to registered users, so blocking access in this case might have something to do with anti-piracy but, since we don't have anything like that.The reason why we had to block some types of web access, is because, for reasons that we really don't understand, we had A LOT of accesses, probably made by automated robots (not people, but programs that blindly download *everything* ), coming from countries like Vietnam, Yemen, China, Taiwan, Moldovia, Lithuania, etc, that downloads the same files, every day, even several times at day, eating up all our available bandwidth, which ( apart for the fact that we have to pay for the bandwidth ), rendered the site much slower for legit customers that simply needed to access the site.Again, this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with anti-piracy: we just need to have the site accessible for users that are really interested, those robots probably are programmed to just download a whole site, perhaps trying to find email addresses to be later used for spamming, I can't find any other reason why an host in Vietnam would need to download the *whole* FSDT website, several times at day, each day of the week.So, we had to block IPs from those countries, and this seemed to work fine, for some time.Unfortunately, some of these robots started to use proxyies to conceal their real IP address, in order to circument the block we put on their country.So, we had to block proxy access and Tor access too.This seems to have the side effect of blocking some users from New Zealand, a very few ones from other countries too. The update is fetched directly using the installer, that is entirely separate from the web access control.Also, the reasons why we had to block web access, doesn't have ANYTHING to do with piracy. dll or the fact its get updated over time, doesn't have ANYTHING to do with web access. So now they're scratching their heads and asking themselves is it really worth it to buy our products, just to access our web?First, the. Since none of the people who created BGLMAN actually ever use it, the dll mistakenly took them for pirates and is not allowing them access to their own site. The plan backfired when the BGLMAN.dll only allowed people who purchased their software to access the site. I know what happened.they deployed an updated version of BGLMAN.dll to their web server to block web site piracy. ![]()
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