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Re: My Website Got Blocked by Omantel

Rufan14 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:35:49 -0000

i need skype coz i need to contact my family in India<< makin calls thru omantel card is damn expensive!! if everyone bans omantel, then they will have to close down their company!! i feel thts the right thing to do!!

Re: Fair Dealing Exceptions in UK Copyright Law

Koko — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:51:52 -0000

This is a good post but can you talk more about the fair use in the US and the case of 'Pretty Woman'

Re: Software Patents (EU, US, and Japan)

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Re: Internet Censorship

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Re: Internet Censorship

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Re: DRM and Privacy

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Re: Private Use of VPN to be Prohibited in Oman

US VPN — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:34:44 -0000

VPN is really necessary for secure internet connection. I wonder why some people wouldn't want that security anyway.

Re: Private Use of VPN to be Prohibited in Oman

Mehdi — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:44:09 -0000

Gubhsh I totally agree with you. Also, as Anoutlaw said, I think they are just scaring people. Well, it is already illegal to encrypt data, but I never heard that someone was in trouble because of that! The TRA could easily say that VPN is illegal because it encrypts traffic.

Re: Private Use of VPN to be Prohibited in Oman

Gubhsh — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:23:02 -0000

It only proves that telecom companies here is very powerful. Like they are connected with the Government yet they are so called Private Companies!

Re: Response to the VPN Regulation Public Consultation

Mehdi — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:07:40 -0000

That's true, I'm just frustrated about the draft regulation lol. Do you think that they are going to be very serious once the regulation is in the formal form? Perhaps, if there will be nothing like 'jail' we could risk =P

Re: Response to the VPN Regulation Public Consultation

Blue_Chi — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:32:28 -0000

Unfortunately there isn't much logic in arguing that VPN should be allowed so that we can use it to access services which are now allowed the country.

Re: Response to the VPN Regulation Public Consultation

Mehdi — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:48:50 -0000

but your response wasn't helpful for users like me who wona use Skype :(((((

Re: Private Use of VPN to be Prohibited in Oman

Anoutlaw — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:16:56 -0000

Too much work, i think they find it easier just to scare people from doing that. I mean if you are using a wifi in hotel , restaurant, coffee shop etc... they have no way of knowing who is using the VPN.

They just want to scare people and that is the best way

Re: Private Use of VPN to be Prohibited in Oman

Blue_Chi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:49:39 -0000

Hi Bg76, if the usage of a person is monitored by an ISP it should not be too hard for the ISP to figure out that a lot of his traffic is going through a single port making it easy for them to suspect he is using a VPN. I'm not sure if they can prove that it is though.

Re: Private Use of VPN to be Prohibited in Oman

Bg76 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:19:27 -0000

Thanks for a very useful and informative article. Is it actually possible for the use of a VPN to be detected? Or at least, is it possible to distinguish VPN use from accessing a secure website such as those used for online banking etc.? I appreciate this is more an IT question rather than a legal one, but it would be interesting to know if you or your readers can shed any light on this.

Re: My Website Got Blocked by Omantel

Me — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:44:48 -0000

Skype is till blocked as of today June 15th 2010. Not only the skype.com domain is blocked but also it is impossible to make calls over skype. the chat works for some strange reason....
Of course, also for skype calls, there are ways around the Omantel blocking... so why block in the first place other then saving the monopoly on international calls....

Re: Fair Dealing Exceptions in UK Copyright Law

Dog Breeders — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:43:17 -0000

Every law is very much active and I think that every man have to respect it.

Re: Twitter Usename Room214 Infringes Trademark?

Horses For Sale — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:12:22 -0000

Its now renewed web for social networking here many people can communicate with each others. Strongly I like it.

Re: Invention Patents in Europe

sumeja123 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:41:02 -0000

haha thats my comment

Re: Invention Patents in Europe

sumeja123 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:39:24 -0000

very weird invention but cool at the same time...

Re: My Website Got Blocked by Omantel

Blue_Chi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:56:03 -0000

Hi Kibtar, thanks for passing by.

I am not on a shared hosting package. I run a number of websites from a single server and yet only one domain name got blocked. I also used Gmail to send my email message.

There is unfortunately no "official" line to use to reach the "right department". If you scream and shout you might eventually reach the person in charge, but from personal experience that is very rare to happen and you must have a lot of patience for it. The person in charge is very unlikely to be available outside official working hours.

Re: My Website Got Blocked by Omantel

Kibtar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:22:58 -0000

"Currently, the only way to have your website unblocked if it gets blocked by Omantel is to follow the procedure I followed"

for me I have got some sites unblocked in a matter of minutes, you just need to get to the right department , and by the way they work 24 hours.

in my opinion, they might have blocked your website because it is sharing its IP with other websites which are blacklisted.

this will happen in shared hosting plans.

when you sent email to admin[a t ] omantel dot com, was your email a myitlawyer.com email?
If yes then your website is for sure listed in spam blacklists.

kind regards

Re: The OpenNet Initiative Report on Oman

Muscato — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:01:10 -0000

FWIW, most of the URLs which are cited in the profile , based on checking them today, remain blocked, although oddly several of the druggy ones now aren't.

Over time, I've found it most annoying that some areas of Wikipedia are blocked, although inconsistently. Not surprisingly, several English-language sites that attack HM are blocked, and the whole VOIP thing really annoys a lot of people. On the whole the filters in Oman seem much less annoying to the average user than those in the UAE, which seem to happen more at the domain-name level (i.e. all of Flickr, etc.).

Re: The OpenNet Initiative Report on Oman

Blue_Chi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:26:59 -0000

I think they probably were unblocked after you tested them. Anyway, check your email for my corrections and notes.

Re: The OpenNet Initiative Report on Oman

Jillian C. York — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:14:09 -0000

Unless we made a huge mistake, there are two possible explanations that I can think of:

1. Your Internet connection is not blocked (I have heard reports from friends in Qatar of being somehow outside the filter, not sure if this happens in Oman)

2. The sites were unblocked after we tested them.

We are re-testing in the region, so hopefully this round will show us that those sites are unblocked. Still, do e-mail me, I don't mind being proven wrong!