That's weird. I have a vpn and have no problems up or downloading. But yeah, almost everything there can be found elsewhere. Still, it's good for large sets like kb3d and BMS. That's what I use it for. And, like you said, it is well policed. They shut down infected stuff quick. And you can always use GCPersia, which is a sister site that gets most of the better stuff that's put on gcpeers. Not all of it, but a lot. You'll have to use the dreaded 1 file at a time method there tho.