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MP3s Evade Censorship in Belgrade

Posted by jamie on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

An Anonymous Coward shared this Freedom Forum story with us, in which a chief correpondent for CBS news reveals how they got audio out of Yugoslavia despite wartime censorship. Simple: they emailed MP3s. The net helped them keep up-to-date too.

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  1. Hmmm..... by JM_the_Great · · Score: 1

    More proof that censorship _never_ works. People will always find a way around it if they want to. There are always loopholes in laws (kinda like programs (hmm....`loop'holes.....)).

    Anyway, supposing the telephones in Europe (on avreage) can only handle 14.4kbps, and this is _not_ the richest country in europe. I would say they probably got connection speeds under 10kbps. Try uploading even a 10 minute Mp3 at 9600. I believe that would take a lot longer then 40 mins. (unless they encoded it at like 32kbps)

    That's my $(2^4*3+1/7%3*2/100)

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