Monday, September 01, 2008

What the Heck?

 
Coturnix posted a video on A Blog Around the Clock. His posting, entitled Just replace '9/11' with 'POW'..., was critical of McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin. The main issue in the election, according to Coturnix and others, is race. If true, that's sad.

I tried to watch the video that Coturnix embedded in his blog and this is what I get ...


Isn't that interesting? Is this a joke or has the server at hulu has been set up to recognize and block IP numbers that are registered outside of the USA? Why?


4 comments:

  1. Hulu hosts material from U.S. commercial television networks, in this particular case it's a clip from "The Family Guy" show.

    To get distribution permission from the copyright holders they had to agree to block access from other countries.

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  2. You can use stuff like Hotspot Shield or UltraSurf to get around country restrictions by Hulu or Pandora. Both solutions are free, but ad-supported, and I wouldn't do anything of a more delicate nature while conntected to them, but it seems to work just fine for watching TV shows and listening to music!

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  3. Crap. I did not know this. Let me see if there is an alternative place to see it.

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  4. Hmmm, YouTube has a lot of Family Guy videos but not this one.

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