The World Is Getting Smaller for International Writers

Posted by KariVM Saturday, May 1, 2010 3:07 AM
Starting May 1, the writing site Associated Content will start to close its doors to non-U.S. writers, except for those who qualify for its Featured Contributor program (those with "top-notch writing skills, and a strong body of work in one of our featured topic areas", and willing to submit a U.S. W-8BEN form).

Apparently, a new law passed by the U.S. Senate has affected several U.S.-based writing sites with a international, non-U.S. writers. Read more details about the issue here.

This sucks in a major, major way. Helium has just emailed me saying they're blocking users from "regions in the far east", including the Philippines, from accessing the site. And now this.

Oh, and yes, I haven't really been able to access my Factoidz account, either. I'm not sure if it's just a server problem or if they're blocking non-US I.P. addresses as well.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a possible review of the law, or a sudden decision of these writing sites to open up non-U.S. based domains.

*sigh*

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