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White House Ditches YouTube
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that in an apparent response to privacy complaints, the White House has quietly moved off of YouTube as a method for serving the President's weekly video address. Choosing instead to use a Flash-based solution and Akamai's content delivery network, this comes just days after YouTube began to roll out their own new policies regarding privacy of visitors.
That is, the site would be free to keep logs on the videos viewed by visitors to its own site as well as those embedded on blogs, but it would opt to immediately forget all identifying information associated with requests from government sites.
First I watched some hairy milf porn, then some stuff on how ot win on "Call of Duty", then I watched some heavy metal and cop killing rap music videos, a Joel Osteen sermon, then I watched this guy with an Uzi with a silencer knock off a bunch of targets (way cool!), and then I watched Obama's weekly address.
A few hours later, this black helicopter lands in my front yard and a bunch of guys kick my door down! I mean, WTF!?!
Flash? When HTML 5 is done they can use the tag.
Biden recommended the withdrawal after YouTube refused to give him their "number".
Yes, but they want something they can use for THIS presidential term.
Thank you! Thank you! I'm here all week! Try the veal!
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
1. It is a youtube link. Who doesn't go to youtube?
I guess you've never been to xHamster.
But this will probably end up costing millions all over a cookie.
And it's not even chocolate chip.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Gov't is good at exploitation:
1. Use youtube to aggregate and host videos initially. Exploit Youtube's excellent distribution model for short term content.
2. After a month, back them up on your own storage server (i.e. US library of Congress). Exploit your excellent archival infrastructure. Convert from flash to something like Mpeg-4 too. That will built up the LoC's site and pump more cash/need/better use cases into it.
3. profit! well maybe not as gov't is not suppose to profit remember!
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Perhaps you've not heard, p2p is illegal, even if the content holder uploads the torrent themselves...
Requiem for the American Dream
Smoke some weed, you'll be less anxious.