Emp servers status and other useful info whenever Emp is unresponsive to you:

http://about.empornium.sx

bookmark it for later :-)

Do not use PeerBlock or PeerGuardian 2015-03-24 06:00

They are snake-oil and do not protect you. Instead, they blacklist our tracker, alongside thousands of seedboxes and other harmless random addresses.

If you use Peerblock and can't download from Empornium - now you know why.

Get rid of this crap. If you want to protect yourself, get a VPN. We have informative threads on VPNs in our Help subforums.