Help, Blocked by rebrickable.com

[colorant]

I have been blocked out by rebrickable.com for months, It reads as following:

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What happened?

The owner of this website (rebrickable.com) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (4134) from accessing this website.

 

I have thought that it might be my personal network problem and could be temporal. While today, after a couple month , I googled and found out what ASN mean, for short, it seems 4134 is almost means the whole China IP is been banned...

I tried to find out rebrickable's contact method to ask about what happened, could this been a mistake? ( Since blocked out the whole country seems to me not so " Correct " )

But since I am not able to access the website and google give me nothing , so I have to try to seek for help here.

Anyone know what happened, or can someone kindly throw me a contact method of rebrickable, so that I can ask for help or at least figure out what is happening here ?

Thank.

 

 

 

 

[JopieK]

You could use a VPN. Maybe the IP addres range you are in was also used by some spammers. But now you mention China, another possibility would be that they are probably worried about people copying the designs and selling them under Lepin or other clone brands?!

[colorant]

4 hours ago, JopieK said:

You could use a VPN. Maybe the IP addres range you are in was also used by some spammers. But now you mention China, another possibility would be that they are probably worried about people copying the designs and selling them under Lepin or other clone brands?!

Thanks for your reply.

While, I did tried a few VPN, but no, it doesn't work. This ASN banning things seems a little bit hard to walk around , at least for me.

And , I don't think this might help to prevent Lepin from copy the ideas from some moc, there are too many way to do so if they want to, as a company

Also It seems to me not a good idea to make other innocent people as victims. So I prefer to believe that it might be a wrong blocking setting by mistake.

Anyway, could some one kindly give me an Email contact method of the rebrickable's website maintainer ? I think they should have it on the website. But..

[JaBaCaDaBra]

Try TOR browser.

https://www.torproject.org/download/

[JopieK]

3 hours ago, colorant said:

And , I don't think this might help to prevent Lepin from copy the ideas from some moc, there are too many way to do so if they want to, as a company

Also It seems to me not a good idea to make other innocent people as victims. So I prefer to believe that it might be a wrong blocking setting by mistake.

Anyway, could some one kindly give me an Email contact method of the rebrickable's website maintainer ? I think they should have it on the website. But..

They are also a bunch of volunteers / LEGO enthusiasts, maybe some of their own ideas got stolen, just speculation, but I know it happens and some people really get mad about it (with a good reason).

I don't have Nathan's email, but here is his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanthom/?originalSubdomain=au