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In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube. AFAIK, the German company that produced the interview didn't s

In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube. AFAIK, the German company that produced the interview didn't sell the international rights to the German broadcaster, which is also why the original video is geolocked to Germany. So I'd guess it's this company that's behind the YouTube takedowns.

mxfh 13y ago
It's even more absurd the international rights to the Interview are owned by CineCentrum a 100% subsidiary of Studio Hamburg which is completely owned by the NDR, a Member of the german ARD public broadcasting network. The NDR says it only got the national rights to the video, while the international rights are still at CineCentrum. Originally the NDR didn't even see it necessary to publish the video undubbed to german. Only after some heavy online protests they put the original version online, yet still geofenced to Germany. http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/44424/nach_kritik_ndr_veroeffentlicht_englisches_snowdeninterview/ http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/44424/nach_kritik_ndr_veroeff... The transcript is offically available here: http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html
bad_alloc 13y ago
I found these videos that can be viewed in Germany: 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlYh58cxKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlYh58cxKY (Interview with German translation) 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg (Interview in English) Do they work for anybody else?
- dogweather 13y ago
  Nope - doesn't work for me in the U.S. Can you download it and torrent it?
  - pgeorgi 13y ago
    https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
    - zokier 13y ago
      I must say I'm becoming increasingly disappointed about archive.orgs lax copyright policies. Becoming a treasure trove of pirated material really eats its legitimacy in my eyes.
      - darklajid 13y ago
        I'm having trouble if the ARD (or parts of it) starts dicking around with copyright restrictions. They receive a huge amount of funding from mandatory payments of all German households (you can try to avoid that if you're a poor student or poor, period, but usually you're (supposed to be) paying - by law). It's really close to a tax to pay for their content, their infrastructure. Which makes sense in a way for me, I do want broadcasters that don't need to rely on 'what the masses want' alone to pick their content, ending with Big Brother and brainless idiotic stuff everywhere. But there's power and there's responsibility. If you take money from ~every~ citizen/household, then you better release that stuff with a decent license.
        zokier 13y ago
        But the content is freely viewable in Germany, isn't it? Imho that would easily cover their mandate to the people (who are financing them)
        pgeorgi 13y ago
        For a number of days. I wonder when they will go un-publish this one. Most things disappear from their websites after 7 days, which is a "compromise" they worked out with the private media corporations.
        zokier 13y ago
  - smtddr 13y ago
    For anyone that can host it, here's how to get the mp4. From: http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=e2ce8368acfc http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=e2ce8368acfc Length: 85151797 (81M) [video/mp4] Right-Click & Save As... http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2014/Jan/27/LiveLeak-dot-com-f93_1390833151-Snowden-InterviewinEnglish_NDR480p_1390833558.mp4.h264_base.mp4?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bade974e47d3d7a487&ec_rate=250 http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2014/Jan/27/LiveLeak-...
    - jlgaddis 13y ago
      "Anti-hotlink protection: The hash code for the file you tried to view has expired." Thanks, though, got it downloaded. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:da801929f47900e5d64d20601c5f00001f26bd57&dn=Snowden%5FInterview.mp4
      - slacka 13y ago
        thanks the magnet. How did you download the video? I tried videograbber, flash video downloader, and download helper. All of them refused to work.
        jlgaddis 13y ago
        Just viewed the source and found the URL to the .mp4, grabbed it w/ curl and threw it into Transmission.
- alextingle 13y ago
  "Blocked in your country" (UK)
  - thisiswrong 13y ago
    This is why it's time for a post-Google internet. No matter what you say about copyright, crucial videos like these are of high public interest and must be available to all individuals. Sadly the state of our current internet allows powerful interests to arbitrarily censor content, justifying their actions with copyright, or worse - 'protecting' children.
    - magicalist 13y ago
      I don't understand your point. It says "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" for me, so it looks like ARD did that on purpose. They could have hosted that on any server and blocked you by IP address. We have Fair Use in the US, which is the protection you seem to be grasping for, and while the concept is weaker in the EU, even with stronger protections it makes no logical sense to depend on the person who wants to (over) enforce their copyright to distribute their works freely under fair use. Even without any copyright at all, you still wouldn't be able to force them to distribute to everyone. You might as well mail them and ask for a copy, and, when they turn you down, call for a post-Postal-Service world. You can, however, look to others to distribute the work, and as others have said below, the interview is available online[1]. If you think fair use in this case is important and someone tries to get the interview taken down from the Internet Archive, I suggest donating to hopefully get some good precedent behind them. [1] https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
- gdy 13y ago
  Not in Russia

mxfh 13y ago

It's even more absurd the international rights to the Interview are owned by CineCentrum a 100% subsidiary of Studio Hamburg which is completely owned by the NDR, a Member of the german ARD public broadcasting network. The NDR says it only got the national rights to the video, while the international rights are still at CineCentrum. Originally the NDR didn't even see it necessary to publish the video undubbed to german. Only after some heavy online protests they put the original version online, yet still geofenced to Germany. http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/44424/nach_kritik_ndr_veroeffentlicht_englisches_snowdeninterview/ http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/44424/nach_kritik_ndr_veroeff... The transcript is offically available here: http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html

bad_alloc 13y ago

I found these videos that can be viewed in Germany: 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlYh58cxKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlYh58cxKY (Interview with German translation) 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg (Interview in English) Do they work for anybody else?

dogweather 13y ago
Nope - doesn't work for me in the U.S. Can you download it and torrent it?
- pgeorgi 13y ago
  https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
  - zokier 13y ago
    I must say I'm becoming increasingly disappointed about archive.orgs lax copyright policies. Becoming a treasure trove of pirated material really eats its legitimacy in my eyes.
    - darklajid 13y ago
      I'm having trouble if the ARD (or parts of it) starts dicking around with copyright restrictions. They receive a huge amount of funding from mandatory payments of all German households (you can try to avoid that if you're a poor student or poor, period, but usually you're (supposed to be) paying - by law). It's really close to a tax to pay for their content, their infrastructure. Which makes sense in a way for me, I do want broadcasters that don't need to rely on 'what the masses want' alone to pick their content, ending with Big Brother and brainless idiotic stuff everywhere. But there's power and there's responsibility. If you take money from ~every~ citizen/household, then you better release that stuff with a decent license.
      - zokier 13y ago
        But the content is freely viewable in Germany, isn't it? Imho that would easily cover their mandate to the people (who are financing them)
        pgeorgi 13y ago
        For a number of days. I wonder when they will go un-publish this one. Most things disappear from their websites after 7 days, which is a "compromise" they worked out with the private media corporations.
        zokier 13y ago
- smtddr 13y ago
  For anyone that can host it, here's how to get the mp4. From: http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=e2ce8368acfc http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=e2ce8368acfc Length: 85151797 (81M) [video/mp4] Right-Click & Save As... http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2014/Jan/27/LiveLeak-dot-com-f93_1390833151-Snowden-InterviewinEnglish_NDR480p_1390833558.mp4.h264_base.mp4?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bade974e47d3d7a487&ec_rate=250 http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2014/Jan/27/LiveLeak-...
  - jlgaddis 13y ago
    "Anti-hotlink protection: The hash code for the file you tried to view has expired." Thanks, though, got it downloaded. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:da801929f47900e5d64d20601c5f00001f26bd57&dn=Snowden%5FInterview.mp4
    - slacka 13y ago
      thanks the magnet. How did you download the video? I tried videograbber, flash video downloader, and download helper. All of them refused to work.
      - jlgaddis 13y ago
        Just viewed the source and found the URL to the .mp4, grabbed it w/ curl and threw it into Transmission.
alextingle 13y ago
"Blocked in your country" (UK)
- thisiswrong 13y ago
  This is why it's time for a post-Google internet. No matter what you say about copyright, crucial videos like these are of high public interest and must be available to all individuals. Sadly the state of our current internet allows powerful interests to arbitrarily censor content, justifying their actions with copyright, or worse - 'protecting' children.
  - magicalist 13y ago
    I don't understand your point. It says "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" for me, so it looks like ARD did that on purpose. They could have hosted that on any server and blocked you by IP address. We have Fair Use in the US, which is the protection you seem to be grasping for, and while the concept is weaker in the EU, even with stronger protections it makes no logical sense to depend on the person who wants to (over) enforce their copyright to distribute their works freely under fair use. Even without any copyright at all, you still wouldn't be able to force them to distribute to everyone. You might as well mail them and ask for a copy, and, when they turn you down, call for a post-Postal-Service world. You can, however, look to others to distribute the work, and as others have said below, the interview is available online[1]. If you think fair use in this case is important and someone tries to get the interview taken down from the Internet Archive, I suggest donating to hopefully get some good precedent behind them. [1] https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
gdy 13y ago
Not in Russia