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Anyone else find it completely asinine that to watch the original video you must log in to the 4od service?[1] Talk about missing the point. I'm pleased to see

Anyone else find it completely asinine that to watch the original video you must log in to the 4od service?[1] Talk about missing the point. I'm pleased to see it popping up now on third-party sites that can be accessed without logging in. Good on Channel 4 for airing this (with full knowledge that it would be politically unpopular in the UK) but the login requirement seems like either a huge oversight or a crude practical joke. Maybe this was a restriction put in place by the video's creator? I suspect I wasn't the only one to create a new throwaway account on 4od to watch the video this morning. [1]https://twitter.com/tombrossman/status/415816279992172544 https://twitter.com/tombrossman/status/415816279992172544

neeee 13y ago
You can't view it on youtube either from Norway, the UK, and many other countries. "This video contains content from Channel 4 s/f, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."
- Shank 13y ago
  Blocked in America too.
  - moocowduckquack 13y ago
    This modify headers hack may work - http://brokensecrets.com/2010/09/27/how-to-watch-blocked-internet-videos/ http://brokensecrets.com/2010/09/27/how-to-watch-blocked-int... It usually works for watching Colbert from the UK.
salient 13y ago
Not only did they add that after the fact, when they saw people were coming to their site to see it, but it seems they've also asked Google to flag all Youtube videos with it. Wow. How can they claim copyright on that? Wasn't the video made by Snowden himself? It certainly seemed like a video taken with a phone (480p recording, too).
- k-mcgrady 13y ago
  >> "Wow. How can they claim copyright on that? Wasn't the video made by Snowden himself? It certainly seemed like a video taken with a phone (480p recording, too)." The fact they Channel 4 were the only ones to show it and it was for their alternative Christmas message suggests they had some sort of exclusive on it.

neeee 13y ago

You can't view it on youtube either from Norway, the UK, and many other countries. "This video contains content from Channel 4 s/f, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."

Shank 13y ago
Blocked in America too.
- moocowduckquack 13y ago
  This modify headers hack may work - http://brokensecrets.com/2010/09/27/how-to-watch-blocked-internet-videos/ http://brokensecrets.com/2010/09/27/how-to-watch-blocked-int... It usually works for watching Colbert from the UK.

salient 13y ago

Not only did they add that after the fact, when they saw people were coming to their site to see it, but it seems they've also asked Google to flag all Youtube videos with it. Wow. How can they claim copyright on that? Wasn't the video made by Snowden himself? It certainly seemed like a video taken with a phone (480p recording, too).

k-mcgrady 13y ago
>> "Wow. How can they claim copyright on that? Wasn't the video made by Snowden himself? It certainly seemed like a video taken with a phone (480p recording, too)." The fact they Channel 4 were the only ones to show it and it was for their alternative Christmas message suggests they had some sort of exclusive on it.