Why are Countries blocked to read/get content in Tapas

[silverraven0]

Maybe we could get some clarification from @michaelson or @Yoon?

[noenoh]

Hello!. I hope so because Im just back from IG and Tapas promoting the series post apparead on my feed (as a recent post) and I noticed the first 4 people commenting and all of them were complaining about the same thing! whats happening??!!

EDIT: I did read the caption on IG and its the only place where warns us its only avaiable in north america (yet, Mexico is banned)
why Tapas didnt put a warn on the story first?? and to avoid us from paying for it??? its definitely not my fault but Tapas/author? for not warning us before launching the story.

[unknown_user]

May be it's more a fault of the laws of those countries, than Tapas itself.

[Chopythes]

Swedish here, I get the same thing when looking for the comic. So yeah...

And what I know of, Sweden don't ban comics. They don't ban... Like anything. So yeah, this might be either a hardcore bug or... Something else.

[silverraven0]

I'm just wondering why is it limited to north America only.

I checked the app on both iOS and android, and they both unavailable (obviously), but it didn't have the buy chapters option.

(and also, yoon, when I put the apple on landscape mode, the app fc)

[skicoak]

Can a creator dictate where their content is readable? Just thinking outside the box of what's been suggested.

[kip]

It’s absolutely possible but really weird? I know my country has nearly no laws regarding fictional content other than things like CP- I can’t imagine why this would happen?

[unknown_user]

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that it can be connected with LGBT-friendly content, which is represented in Tapas widely. Unfortunately, in some countries it's considered as something harmful, so it may be censored

[Rosso]

i just checked the comic and yup, blocked here too (third world country)
this is quite odd as i've never ran into a blocked comic before this one...?

[unknown_user]

Hmmm... I've just checked that https://tapas.io/series/ohmyassistant comics, and it's blocked for Russia, too! While all other yaoi comics I've seen are available. Now I think that it may be a bug of some sort.
P.S. In the meantime, use VPN, as people above already suggested. For example, I can see this comics from Netherlands server.

[Rosso]

definitely not a bug. it's deliberate and they made it clear on their IG post description that it's only available in North America. This is awful to those who paid, but honestly i'm also feeling bad for the artist to have their work restricted like this lol

[kip]

Nope my country is extremely accepting in society + legally??

[silverraven0]

I don't think it is because the comic is blocked in another country, but that it is just simply made exclusive to north America (for some reason).

If it was really blocked by the country, I wouldn't possibly able to even download the app.

Or the author just want it to only available to na? Thought I doubt it.

[unknown_user]

But Netherlands are not in North America.
Now I've also checked that it works for Germany server, but doesn't work for France and U.K. servers.
I don't see the pattern. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sheap]

It didn't work for me either
Weird
(Also this has to be bad for the comic's author too, tha page is preventing some potencial readers to access)

About the coins (ink) it has been a while since those have become "not available in this moment" for me permanently

[michaelson]

Hello everyone,

We apologize for the inconvenience and will be issuing a full refund for purchased episodes for Oh! My Assistant.

The region locking is primarily due to agreements made with the original copyright holders of the series. Due to the popularity of the series, we were only able to sign for English distribution in United States and Canada. However, due to the a bug upon publishing, the series was made widely available to everyone.

[noenoh]

Thank you for the explanation.
Also, I received my refund, thank you for that as well.

Would it be possible to suggest that for locked works to have a message in their promoting art (directly in their art on tapas, not in the captions)? Just to avoid for us to jump on buying them if a bug attacks again.

[DortchRules]

Yes, I've also met such a situation and I consider it as inequality because some countries are allowed but some not. It shows me that not every country is in an equal position and makes me pity about our world. I was really angry about it and I started to look for some advice on the net about my problem. I found interesting blog https://vladtalks.tech/vpn/what-is-a-free-vpn-trial where I found out that I can install vpn on my Mac and I can watch all content in the world and listen to all songs. I really enjoyed it and I already bought the full version of Nord VPN.

[Ramonkey]

In summary:

• Available to PAY for it.

• Small print: Not available to read it outside NA.

Hum.

[yuliiazinevych787]

yep, that is the best way to avoid block
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