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China Blocks More Internet Services

Dave writes "China continues to block more and more popular services. This week they blocked iTunes and YouTube, and now it's TringMe, a popular VoIP 2.0 service. From TringMe's Blog: 'We received close to hundred complaints from our China users that TringMe services is not accessible from yesterday. We have found after our investigation that TringMe is blocked by Chinese government. Earlier China blocked Skype and now they are turning their eye to TringMe. TringMe is extremely popular in China and we have a large number of paying customers in China including a Chinese social network with 3 million users using TringMe's API & services.'"

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  1. 404 File Not Found by Taimat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yikes! They got slashdot!

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  2. Block China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perhaps the western world should block China from the internet.

  3. Re:iTunes by Free+the+Cowards · · Score: 2, Funny

    iTunes doesn't contact DRM servers every time you play a file. It contacts them once, when you purchase and download a file. If you move the file to a new computer which has never seen your iTunes account before, then you have to contact the servers again to authorize that computer on your iTunes account.

    So you'd be prevented from moving the files to a new computer, but you wouldn't be prevented from playing them back on the equipment that you had already authorized.

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  4. Please block MMORPGs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    China, please block your citizens from using Western MMORPGs. We'd like to go 5 minutes without some RUD U RIKE TO BUY PRATINUM? spam being sent to us.