FWIW the IP address is now blocked in Orange and Masmovil too since an hour ago approximately. Hay ahora fútbol?
I don’t know, but if anyone thinks that a few dozen users of this service can change anything at the political level, I would call that a rather naive idea. I’m not from Spain, but at one point I was dealing with something as an ISP representative in my country, and it was so annoying and tedious that I preferred to put my energy into other matters rather than argue with bureaucracy. In that case, it was better and, above all, FASTER for us to transfer our services to another provider where such problems did not exist. I take a completely realistic view of this. The average user will not bother with setting up VPNs and other things. This is more the domain of advanced users. And not everyone targets this group with their services.
I completely agree with you. Writing “change your provider” from the perspective of a service provider is such a short-sighted statement, which has many other aspects and is not an option for everyone.
With all due respect, this should primarily be StorJ’s concern to make their services available and try to remedy the situation. Or should half the country change providers? I don’t want to offend anyone, but I haven’t read such stupid advice in a long time.
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Disclaimer: I am just a humble little node operator from a country on the opposite side of European Union, not otherwise associated with Storj.
I agree that this is a concern. I would say though that it’s not a big concern. Look at it this way: competition is also affected, and they are affected to a much more significant degree. Why would Storj stick their neck out fighting with foreign country’s bureaucracy if their competition would have more to win than them? As much as I would like to see Storj working on this problem, I just don’t see the economic calculus. At the same time Storj is in unique position that they offer the libuplink protocol that sidesteps this kind of censorship, and which is an even bigger competitive advantage in this situation.
Honestly, the way I see it, it’s an attempt at regulatory capture from Spanish government, and it would require excessively big effort from Storj to work around it. Unlikely it would pay off. Want to help? As a Spanish citizen submit proofs to Spanish judges that the blocks are excessive, because they apparently say blocks have no negative effect on anyone.
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Damn missclick …
I am from the EU, but from a completely different country, and I don’t really care whether the Spanish fight for it or not. I look at it from the perspective of a service provider. What we did in our company when we faced something similar was to change our IP addresses. There is always something you can do, and you don’t have to be pilloried by some government.
That’s how I see it. Let’s take an example. I am a company operating in Spain, we use StorJ services for our backend, and suddenly my customers start writing to me that our services are not working because someone has abused them in some fraudulent way, and suddenly you are suffering for someone else’s fault. What do you do? Of course, you first contact that storage company to see what can be done, and when you find out that nothing can be done, you simply migrate to another service because that’s the fastest thing you can do. You’re not going to bother with VPNs or changing providers, no. And suddenly StorJ is useless in one country.
As I said, I don’t care about this particular issue, and if they don’t care, that’s their business. In my work, we have actively addressed this issue several times, and we have never resigned ourselves to saying, “Well, it just can’t be done.” I’m just talking about a dangerous precedent here.
I think there is easy workaround, Storj can rent one VPS with unlimited traffic and make port forward to blocked IP. Put it to link.storjshare.io as second option or something like that. it will be slower but, will work for Spain. slow working is better than not working at all.
If i am wrong somewhere then correct me.
If your clients and your business depend on accessing storj content, you should host your own gateway and not depend on storj gateways. Use the network with the redundancy it was designed for. Your own gateway will connect directly to node operators to retrieve the content.
This appears to be a dedicated IP address for storj. They could request an address change but the reality is that this will happen again. Considering it is a link share address, it’s likely the content that offended the league was hosted by a customer of storj.
Now, it would be sensible to have the intellectual property (IP) holder send a cease and desist to the host, aka storj. I’m sure storj responds to takedown requests all the time.
Instead, Spainish politicians bent over for the IP holders and purposely punish the hosts. I say purposely, because without being required by law, hosts such as storj must now police the content their customers hold to avoid having their entire service blocked.
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Which, unless it spends resources complying, resulting in making the service much more expensive, will be blocked in the same way.
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Of course we are compliant, however, they didn’t contact us and just blocked the entire service instead of the offender.
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I would like to bring to your attention RIPE Atlas measurements that perform ping or traceroute from various networks around the world, including Spain. There is around 250 probes in Spain. From what I can see at https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/127246035 as of 2025-09-05 19:50:45 local, 127 probes reached 185.244.226.2, 102 probes did not.
Another Traceroute - 185.244.226.2 TCP 443 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/127251535
If you look at RESULTS page and sort by ASN you will see which providers are blocking (telefonica, vodafone…) From traceroute results you can see where the path is failing.
Traceroute from random places across the globe https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/127246089
It looks link.storjshare.io translates to 185.244.226.3 and is not blocked - https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/127246034
Hi guys,
It looks like Link.storjshare.io has finally been unblocked. It’s been a pretty intense few weeks trying to get the service working via VPN while the block was in place.
I hope this doesn’t have a negative impact again.
Out of curiosity, have you contacted us or made any requests to have the link unblocked?
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I think what happened is that Storj moved the domain from the .2 IP to .3.
The blocks are fixed by IP, not by domain name - the criteria they follow is not public and unknown. This does unblock link.storjshare.io, even though the .2 IP remains blocked.
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I just checked it and you are right that the IP is currently another, but I also see that the IP 185.244.226.2 is unblocked, if you do the tracert command, you can reach the IP that was blocked, which was not possible before.
You are right, it got unblocked now. According to hayahora.futbol all the ISPs lifted the block to .2 this morning around the time I replied.