Bleh. This is hype and scaremongering by Germany.
It is nowhere even near to the crap that NSA was/is trying to pull with their efforts.
Other than the password for that one router/system, everything else is a publicly available information.
Here's interactive map of every single IP on the internet http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/hilbert/index.html
Here's the same scary looking "Top Secret" Robtex graph for videosift.com https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/66/228/54/105/#graph

If Germany is trying to stir public outrage, they should do better than this.

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I think I'd have to see it in actual printed form to judge the readability accurately.

BUT, in terms of readability on a display, like the 40" 1920x1080 LCD I'm watching on ... it is quite poor in my opinion. I have a feeling that it would work much better in ink on paper.

33% ink savings sounds pretty good, assuming that the readability on paper is better than a display. That being said, encouraging printer manufacturers to have a more sane approach to refillable ink/toner reservoirs would have a better/bigger impact.

Here in Thailand, where respect for patents / IP is low, (SE Asia is notorious for fake manufactured goods, pirated "soft" media, and hardware hacks / bypasses) I'd guess that around 90% of inkjet printers sold have a tank system glued onto the side with ink lines running into the cartridges from big CYMK reservoirs. I never buy new cartridges unless the print head gets damaged/worn out -- instead, I just buy cheap LARGE bottles of the different ink colors and refill the reservoirs. (Image link of such a setup HERE)

That kind of mod would be a gray or black-market item in the West, but here the laissez-faire attitude about such things has some positive effects. At least, for a consumer (like me), or someone concerned about the environmental impact of all the waste packaging for ink carts (like the dude in this video).

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I'm viewing it from the main page (http://videosift.com/video/Beastie-Boys-Vs-The-Muppets). It plays on YouTube directly. I'm in the US.

Edit: I just fired up Tor Browser and it plays on this page from an IP address in Luxembourg. Is YouTube restricting things now to certain states?

Okay, now that I've blacklisted a few hundred IPs, our load is way back down again.

We were just getting hit from every angle by crawlers, but we should be okay now.

Actually, it looks like the cause right now is that Bing and some other spiders are crawling us really hard again, so I have to blacklist even more IPs to fight them off.

Hello lucky760,

I am blacklisted ! / ? / !? / ?!

...at least at/on my primary puter or my DSL connection or its IP.

If you were not aware I'm sure you are now, I am not computer savvy.

Best guess...deading vids I had a particular porn site come up several different times yesterday. I expeditiously exited and continued. Upon returning home last night I sought to continue. My screen locked up, I received the spinning beachball of death, could not force quit or restart so resorted to "pulling the plug." I backed up and retired.

This morning I resumed and was quickly treated to an 80's video, blacklisted.

Is malware a good guess?

(in a little voice meekly) help

The missing thumbnail issue is fixed. Had to update our origin IP at our CDN. (CC @eric3579)

Side note: Yes, our new servers are absolutely, unequivocally, undeniably blazing fast now.

We've never had server load as low as it is right now. This is a phenomenal thing.

Happy days are here again.

Free market doesn't come into it. The internet itself is not a free market invention. It is essentially a public service that we allow contractors (the ISPs) to maintain in the same way that building companies maintain roads.

The internet itself (i.e. the physical network and the IP layer) grew out of DARPANet; a US government-funded defence initiative and the world wide web (the HTTP layer, HTML, etc) came from CERN; an EU multi-state research project.

The point is that the infrastructure itself was not created by the cable companies, they merely built on it. And they have no more right to decide to charge for different data than a road maintenance company does to charge different freight companies different rates.

Okay, heard back from our CDN and it seems we inadvertently blacklisted some of their IPs while blocking some web crawlers recently.

We've unblocked those, so if that was the problem (and I'm pretty sure it was), everyone should be back in working order. If you were having this problem, please let us know either way.

@Sagemind @Thumper @deathcow @lurgee

A hosts entry is a way to override dns for a single hostname and cause untold trouble in future that you will never be able to sort out or understand

Anyway, what do you get if you open terminal and look up the IP address of the cdn? Command is:

nslookup cdn.videosift.com

It might help @lucky760 sort out the problematic nodes if he knows this, so please cut and paste the results of that command back here... particularly if the problem is your ISP and not the CDN itself.

nvm, it's fixed.

Works for me. What IP address does your name server give for the cdn host?

I get:

# nslookup cdn.videosift.com
cdn.videosift.com canonical name = cdn.siftpartners2.netdna-cdn.com.
Name: cdn.siftpartners2.netdna-cdn.com
Address: 108.161.188.129

What happens if you put in a hosts entry with that address?

If you're still interested in emerging details of the NSA/GCHQ story, keep reading. If not, feel free to delete the comment.

As you might have heard, a parliamentary investigative committee was set up in Germany to shed some light on at least some of the claims made by the press. They don't want to pay too close attention to it, given that our own intelligence services are just as bad, but that's another discussion.

Today, two expert witnesses were supposed to testify, William Binney and Thomas Drake, Everything was to be broadcast, as is custom, but they decided not to broadcast it after all. Given that recent interviews with both Binney and Drake indicated that they were planning to reveal quite a lot about shady cooperation between NSA/GCHQ and our own services, a set of rather embarassing details might have emerged. What a coincidence... [see footnotes]

Additionally, one of our public broadcasters, in cooperation with Jacob Appelbaum, revealed a piece of source code from a selector of XKeyscore. Hardcoded within, for some reason, we find the IPs of all servers running a TOR directory authority, once of them owned and maintained by a German student. So now we have the names of two German citizens under surveillance, and it'll be significantly harder for our Attorney General to find ways not to open up an invenstigation into espionage.

Also part of the revealed code was a confirmation that using TOR gets you labeled as an "extremist" and your ass is now amongst those whose activities will be monitored, constantly. A Google search for it is enough to land on their shit list, same for Tails.

That's the day so far, and it's not even 1pm.

Edit #1: Binney and Drake are considered witnesses, their statements are exempt from broadcast/streaming. Opposition forced a vote on it, government prevailed, no stream available.

Edit #2: I'll provide a summary of the juicy bits once they are done.

Edit #3: Members of the US Congress present, curious to see some (yet unmentioned) names.

Edit #4: Well, 0:20 and they're finally done for the day. Here's a summary of today's session, though the source can sometimes be a bit of a mouthpiece for the government.

Star Wars was NOT about "the future." It was all about "A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away."

And Hank Green disagrees.

Regardless, Allen here makes the case for finally doing away with IP/copyright.