Currently, you can not visit many quite interesting sites. And it doesn’t matter why they are needed: for work and entertainment or just for the very necessary information. Why is this happening?
Why is it impossible to enter the site
There may be several reasons. The main, most common, site is blocked by a court decision. Another reason is the country where the user is currently located, is included in the list of states from which access to this resource is prohibited. It occurs much less frequently. At least, the author of this article came across a court decision more often. How to access a banned site? We will certainly tell you about this, but first, let's see what the legislation says.
We have the right and continue to have it ...
There is such a wonderful document - the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Its article 29 (paragraph 4) states that everyone has the right to freely seek and receive, produce and transmit, as well as disseminate information by any legal means. The list of information that makes up a state secret is determined by federal law. That is, if you do not violate Art. 23 and 24 of the Basic Law (on the inviolability of a person’s private life and non-dissemination of information about her without his consent) and do not collect state secrets, then nothing can limit your right to receive the necessary information. And the user should not be tormented by the question of how to open a prohibited site.
In November 2006, the State Duma of Russia adopted the fourth part of the Civil Code. According to this document, providers are now responsible for the presence of “pirated” content on their networks, and users will have to prove in court that they needed to copy the picture from the browser window.
The Duma ignored the comments of even its own legal department and adopted the fourth part of the Civil Code, the amendments to which were lobbied by our European partners in the negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO. The officials in this organization really wanted to.
Prove that you need it
Article 1273 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation says that it is permissible, without the consent of the author and without payment of remuneration, to reproduce, if necessary and exclusively for personal purposes, a legally published work.
This means the following. For personal purposes, we can only copy what we need. And its presence will have to prove to various law enforcement officers. Even an accidental click on an unnecessary picture, as one of the expert lawyers says, can cost us from 10 thousand to 5 million rubles. in a civil suit, and under the Criminal Code - up to 6 years. What to discuss viewing prohibited sites. This is the freedom of the Internet, which the President of Russia said in his address to the Federal Assembly.
Lock
And in order not to tempt the user, they began to put a lock on resources. And the question "how to access the banned site?" gained relevance.
Although initially the Internet was conceived as a network where anyone can get all the information he needs (except for that, of course, which is a
state secret).
What should be prohibited on the World Wide Web, what is not - there are still fierce disputes. Opponents and supporters give a lot of arguments about their rightness, what needs to be done and how. Watching prohibited sites today, simply by entering their address, will not work, and while the debate is ongoing, the user sees in his browser just such a picture (on the right) or something similar. A lot of options.
Need to do something
Most often, blocking does not affect the operation of the site. Only users with a Russian IP address are being denied access. That is, being at home, at work, or somewhere in the vastness of our Motherland, you will not be able to visit the resource that is necessary for you, but prohibited by Russian law. Even if you need it for work. Moreover, it happens that the ban is completely stupid, but officials need to be safe. Just in case. As our satirist Mikhail Zadornov says, it’s necessary to forbid the cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” For children, because there the wolf smokes, walks in a walk
criminal authority and too close presses a hare. And for some reason, the author stopped seeing this cartoon in the afternoon. One of the channels showed it somehow around twelve in the morning. This is called "arrived."
And at the same time, while drinking coffee in an Internet cafe somewhere in Munich, you can safely visit this resource. Therefore, since the Russian IP-address prevents our users from accessing the banned site, it means that we need to master effective methods of substituting “IP”. There are few of them, we will consider briefly, if necessary, you can find additional information.
IP spoofing programs and methods
1. The most ideal option is the use of VPN services . But you have to spend a little money, as they are paid (somewhere from 250 rubles per month). VPN is an abbreviation for Virtual Private Network, which means “virtual private network” in English. These services guarantee: strong data encryption to protect against interception of passwords, payment information, online correspondence and other things; changing the IP address, which allows you to get the full "depersonalization" of the user and - as a result - maximum anonymity on the World Wide Web. How in
You yourself understand, taking a VPN in Russia does not make sense.
2. Using a Tor browser . After VPN - the most affordable, convenient and, most importantly, free way. This is a browser with a built-in TOR system (abbreviated from The Onion Router - “onion” router). It is a set of proxy servers through which a request from the user to the site of interest passes. Provides anonymity and encryption of the circulating data. Working with it is simple: download, install, and enjoy. There is at least one drawback identified by the author - an outdated flash player is installed in the Mozilla Tor browser. But, nevertheless, it provides comfortable work on the Internet, absolutely no different from the usual one, and access to all blocked resources, including torrent trackers.
3. Since it is necessary to bypass IP blocking to bypass blocked sites, the third solution to the problem is the use of
proxies and
anonymizers . Both provide anonymous network access. Proxy functions are not limited to this. He has several more uses, but we will not consider them. Client software connects to the anonymizer as a proxy server or as a website. In the second case, it is called a web proxy. The latter are more popular due to the lack of additional settings. The work of the web anonymizer is as follows. The user goes to the site providing such a service and enters the address of the required resource. Anonymizer receives this page, processes it, and transfers it to the client on its behalf. The following should be noted. Anonymizers and proxies do not provide protection for transmitted data. Moreover, they are an additional link in the channel for leakage of personal information.
Here, perhaps, are the main ways that describe how to access a banned site. There are still options. For example, the Opera browser has a Turbo button. For Linux users, there is a JonDo utility. In addition, some prohibited sites are registered, including on the I2P network. The abbreviation stands for Invisible Internet Project, i.e. The Invisible Internet project. It is an anonymous, self-organizing distributed network. There are several more ways, but these are more than enough for the average user.