Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: With 24-hour MTV-style Persian music channels beamed into Iranian homes by satellite, mostly from Los Angeles, home to a huge Iranian émigré community, the state has hit back, not only by cracking down on illegal satellite dishes, but also, according to some media reports, by offering an alternative.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. “I love Namjoo’s work and I dream that one day he can have a concert in Iran,” said Nahal, a 24-year-old private sector employee who downloads all his works. Namjoo lives in California but his music is still heard in Iran. Singer-songwriter Mohsen Namjoo, dubbed “Iran’s Bob Dylan” by the New York Times due to his protest songs, was sentenced to five years’ jail in absentia for insulting religious sanctities. In real life, too, many Iranian musicians have left the country in order to continue practicing their art. In the film, a young woman singer Negar (Negar Shaghaghi) and her musician boyfriend, Ashkan (Ashkan Koshanejad), buy false passports and visas and emigrate to London to pursue their ambitions. Musicians’ struggle against censorship was the subject of a 2009 movie “No One Knows About Persian Cats,” which won the Special Jury prize at Cannes but, like the music it depicted, was banned by the Iranian government. That trend was reversed by hard line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who came to power in 2005. In the 1990s, particularly under the two terms of the reformist President Mohammad Khatami, authorities began relaxing restrictions imposed after the revolution. “Initially we thought that we would be able to obtain permits to release our albums but after (political) conditions changed, it is not even something that crosses our mind anymore,” said the band’s guitarist, 32-year-old Arin. In a home studio in central Tehran, its walls and ceiling covered with insulators to avoid the music being heard outside the apartment, a four-piece rock band “Wednesday Call” is rehearsing. “This honesty and sense of freedom are why young people are becoming more hungry for banned underground music.” To be produced within Iran, music must be approved by the Ministry of Culture and Guidance, which checks lyrics and music to ensure they conform to the moral standards deemed acceptable in the Islamic Republic. “We are trying not to get far from our roots, by using Persian percussion,” Dean said, pointing out the daf - a traditional hand-held drum which looks like a super-sized tambourine with metal chains on one side of the skin that add a scratchy, shimmering sound.īut as Iranian as Angband wants to be, it has had to look further afield to get its music released, signing with a German label, Pure Steel Records. In a country where western music is banned, Dean is part of Iran’s booming underground scene - making rock, Iranian style. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazlīut along with the mandatory Marshall amplifier and out-sized drum kit, his group, Angband, also boasts a couple of goatskin percussion instruments that have been a familiar part of Persian music for centuries. Many Iranian bands do not bother asking for the mandatory government permits to release their music and seek contracts with foreign companies or put their music on websites blocked by the state but still accessible to anyone with a modicum of technical nous. Iranian musicians Ramin Rahimi (C), Mahyar Dean (L) and musician and sound engineer Farshid play music at a music studio in Tehran July 17, 2011.
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