Fileplanet had IP blocks for entire COUNTRIES. I personally never did anything there other than try to get some mods and my country was blocked for no reason I can figure out. In the current year, this authoritarianism would have become magnified hundredfold.
The only reason Fileplanet and sites like that didn't do things like this is because the janny faction hadn't developed the doctrine yet.
I'm old enough, but I've never heard of that one--what was Doritosgate?
I remember a fan remade the Ghostbusters game from the Commodore days. I wish I could download it again.
Fileplanet had IP blocks for entire COUNTRIES. I personally never did anything there other than try to get some mods and my country was blocked for no reason I can figure out. In the current year, this authoritarianism would have become magnified hundredfold.
Blocking American addresses would be a valid course of action for any site these days.
i blocked serbia on an irc channel 10 years ago because all the spammers had .rs hosts.