How does it work?

OKay so! Many of us have been banned.

Do we know how the new update works? Does the file with our steam ID's sit on the server we are connecting to? Or is our clients sending data to a server that garrys has with all of the banned ID's on it. Cause if that's the case we could get around this easily.


But of course nothing in life is easy..


And Antipathy I know what your going to say

I don't think anyone knows for sure - but we can speculate and a) assume its done on the serverside and b) connects to a website (api.garrysmod.com) and checks if you are on the blacklist.

If it does connect to the website I would be curious what would happen if the website goes down. I have a hunch that once you are 'banned' you client is somehow modified so you don't keep on querying the server (re-installing GMod should reset it).

Edit:
Basically a 'bypass' for the ban is near impossible.