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YouTube Banned (25th Feb 08 at 4:24am UTC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm

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Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday.


What are your thoughts on this whole issue?
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Re: YouTube Banned (25th Feb 08 at 5:10am UTC)
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..
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Re: YouTube Banned (25th Feb 08 at 8:18pm UTC)
Posted By dog199200 on 25th Feb 08 at 5:10am
 
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..



Great thought that is exactly what i think.
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Re: YouTube Banned (25th Feb 08 at 8:36pm UTC)
Posted By dog199200 on 25th Feb 08 at 5:10am
 
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..


That probably was it, or it could have been someONE.
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Re: YouTube Banned (25th Feb 08 at 8:44pm UTC)
Posted By I Anoop I on 25th Feb 08 at 8:36pm
 
Posted By dog199200 on 25th Feb 08 at 5:10am
 
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..


That probably was it, or it could have been someONE.



But who would want to do that?
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Re: YouTube Banned (26th Feb 08 at 8:51pm UTC)
The Pakistani government admitted it; so there's no real reason for the arguments on that part. {Tongue Out}

Also, they lifted the ban today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm
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Re: YouTube Banned (26th Feb 08 at 10:30pm UTC)
Sunday? I didn't have any problems with it, from 4:30 pm to 11:30 Pm CST, i did not notice any down times, and my vids still worked just fine, I have noticed though it is going a bit slow to load up, and my friend said that he was watching a video and suddenly it stopped but we both were watching the same video, and it worked fine for me.
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Re: YouTube Banned (26th Feb 08 at 10:58pm UTC)
Posted By Nick on 26th Feb 08 at 10:30pm
 
Sunday? I didn't have any problems with it, from 4:30 pm to 11:30 Pm CST, i did not notice any down times, and my vids still worked just fine, I have noticed though it is going a bit slow to load up, and my friend said that he was watching a video and suddenly it stopped but we both were watching the same video, and it worked fine for me.


You've got to understand a bit about computer hardware to get an idea of why it happened, and why not everyone was affected.

What Pakistan did [or so I think, as it would be the easiest way to go about doing it] was create a fake website and give it the same address as YouTube's main server. Now, all of the internet runs through routers. Routers look for the quickest way to a web address. Pakistan has a few major Routing "Hubs". Having manually configured the routers into seeing the "fake" website as the quickest route to YouTube, it leads them there instead.

However, all routers store information from numerous peripheral routers. This meaning that routers outside of Paksitan with peripherals inside of Pakistan "learned" from these Pakistani routers that there was a quicker way to YouTube, thus also going to the fake address. As you know, everything is connected to pretty much anything else on the internet, so it didn't take long for hubs all over the globe to learn about this "quicker way" to YouTube.

Thus, not everyone will have been blocked from the site, but only a few compared to the number who were blocked.
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Re: YouTube Banned (27th Feb 08 at 4:21am UTC)
Ahh I see, ok. The only time I run off my router is if I am on my PSP, and once I get my laptop, then I will be using it more. So since my friend out in California, and has AOL, still got blocked?
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Re: YouTube Banned (27th Feb 08 at 8:48pm UTC)
Posted By Nick on 27th Feb 08 at 4:21am
 
Ahh I see, ok. The only time I run off my router is if I am on my PSP, and once I get my laptop, then I will be using it more. So since my friend out in California, and has AOL, still got blocked?


Whether you use a router in your house or not, you could still have been affected. Your ISP has lots of routing hubs to allow all their users to access the internet. {Wink}
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Re: YouTube Banned (27th Feb 08 at 11:49pm UTC)
ahh Ok. didn't know that. Im not into that technical stuff {Tongue Out} , just more into the internet it self.
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Re: YouTube Banned (28th Feb 08 at 9:02pm UTC)
Its just...one question...why? Why they hell did they do it??
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Re: YouTube Banned (28th Feb 08 at 9:29pm UTC)
I dont know maybe they wanted to make their own thing like youtube and crash youtube so other people will come to their site.
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Re: YouTube Banned (28th Feb 08 at 9:31pm UTC)
There are quite a few videos on YouTube that are quite offensive to Islamic beliefs and culture.
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Re: YouTube Banned (28th Feb 08 at 11:36pm UTC)
I found that quite funny {Smile}

I don't think a country should try to ban it though.
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