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[DrunkCountry]

Is anyone else experiencing any issues with downloading from the likes of mediafire, uploaded, zippyshare, cloudzer, rapidshare etc?

Since last week we've been unable to download anything - the download pages (either free DLs with captcha or via a subscribed account) just hang / buffer & then fail or take about 20 minutes to cue the download.

I've tired DLing in Firefox & IE & Chrome & via a desktop download software, but it happens on all platforms.

As a radio show we get sent a stupid amount of releases from new / obscure / independent artists / labels etc. for DL via these sharing sites (mediafire, uploaded & zippyshare in particular), but at the moment we can't access any of it. We're a bit screwed if this doesn't right itself pretty sharpish.

Is there a block on these sites (by UK ISPs e.g. BT, etc.) that I'm unaware of? Could it be an issue with the browsers / flash / or[nb]we're up to date on all versions, so it may be an incompatibility / bug on the new versions perhaps[/nb]?