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YouTube Now Featuring Legit Streams of Star Trek, McGyver—and Beverly Hills 90210

Rico Mossesgeld — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:30:04 +0000

Thanks a lot CBS! Now I’m torn between finishing this post and loading up Star Trek: The Original Series via YouTube. Ah well, there’s not that much more to say, so check these out:

Take note though: friends have told me that videos don’t load outside the US. Thanks for wasting my time GeekSugar! Maybe Zamzar.com can help them out? WeProx.com at least works.

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Where Would You Watch This Awesome YouTube Football Tackle?

Rico Mossesgeld — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:00:14 +0000

Football fans, check it out:

The question for gadget geeks is: what gadget would you probably use to watch this awesome tackle? Would you have downloaded the video and uploaded it to your gadget? Or would you have watched the video via mobile internet?

The YouTube page is here.

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Pakistan brings YouTube down

colbert low — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:49:17 +0000

Youtube, we have a problem.

Imagine waking up on a Monday and finding your favourite YouTube videos can’t be loaded. Some will curse, some will just get ready for work. For me, it was a real pissed off. The only reason why this happened was Pakistan or more specifically the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com, because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site. Pakistan was not pleased with the trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders portraying Islam as fascist. Its a big wonder why Pakistan was the only country that did this. The root cause of the problem started when PCCW Ltd. of Hong Kong (one of the world’s 20 largest data carriers) made changes in it switches’ routing table and started directing requests from its global customers for YouTube data to Pakistan, where the data was discarded. Now that was a real dumb move by PCCW.

The block was intended to cover only Pakistan, but extended to about two-thirds of the global Internet population, starting at 1:47 p.m. EST Sunday, according to Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H., firm that keeps track of the pathways of the Internet for telecommunications companies and other clients.

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