Pakistan blocks YouTube -> YouTube down for the whole world - GoFuckYourself.com

polish_aristocrat · 02-24-2008, 06:03 PM

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Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube has been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday.
BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW.

A leading net professional said the global outage was "probably a mistake".

Pakistan ordered internet service providers to block the site because of content deemed offensive to Islam.

The BBC News website's technology editor, Darren Waters, says that to block Pakistan's citizens from accessing YouTube it is believed Pakistan Telecom "hijacked" the web server address of the popular video site.

Those details were then passed on to the country's internet service providers so that anyone in Pakistan attempting to go to YouTube was instead re-directed to a different address.

But the details of the "hijack" were leaked out into the wider internet from PCCW and as a result YouTube was mistakenly blocked by internet service providers around the world.

full story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm

L-Pink · 02-24-2008, 06:04 PM

Good ...... sick of seeing lame links.

Probono · 02-24-2008, 06:14 PM

You need to love governments deciding what is safe for their people to see.

Eva PSC · 02-24-2008, 06:47 PM

it is funny how everybody here hates "illegal" tubes for stolen content yet everybody loves youtube and it is FULL of rips and stolen mainstream videos

marketsmart · 02-24-2008, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Eva PSC

it is funny how everybody here hates "illegal" tubes for stolen content yet everybody loves youtube and it is FULL of rips and stolen mainstream videos

amen brother.. the hypocrisy of this industry amazes me...

Eva PSC · 02-24-2008, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by marketsmart

amen brother.. the hypocrisy of this industry amazes me...

sista

lol

u-Bob · 02-24-2008, 06:53 PM

from NANOG:

So, it seems that youtube's ip block has been hijacked by a more
specific prefix being advertised. This is a case of IP hijacking, not
case of DNS poisoning, youtube engineers doing something stupid, etc.
For people that don't know. The router will try to get the most specific
prefix. This is by design, not by accident. This is a case of censorship
on the internet. Anyways, I hope this doesn't get into a political
situation, and someone stops this.

Diligent · 02-24-2008, 07:29 PM

Crazy shit... when will a certain culture learn that censorship=dictatorship to quite an extent... and that dictatorship REALLY isn't a modern thing, of a modern world...

rowan · 02-24-2008, 10:55 PM

Shows you how insecure and fragile the whole BGP spiderweb really is.

TheAgent · 02-24-2008, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Eva PSC

it is funny how everybody here hates "illegal" tubes for stolen content yet everybody loves youtube and it is FULL of rips and stolen mainstream videos

hey man i love tubesites, i love youporn, redtube, i don't know what everyone bitches about cause they are sitting around picking their ass why people are making money

VeriSexy · 02-25-2008, 03:22 AM

O the madness

Vick! · 02-25-2008, 07:01 AM

They blocked, yes. It resulted blackout, No.

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Originally Posted by Eva PSC

it is funny how everybody here hates "illegal" tubes for stolen content yet everybody loves youtube and it is FULL of rips and stolen mainstream videos

We are fucking hypocrites, something is bad thing only if it messes with out interests and monies .. otherwise, its all good.

u-Bob · 02-25-2008, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Vick!

They blocked, yes. It resulted blackout, No.

Their attempt to block it did cause the 'blackout'.

Vick! · 02-25-2008, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

Their attempt to block it did cause the 'blackout'.

you believe so because? Because, youtube said so. right?

Do you think its this easier to cause blackout? If it was, internet would have been collapsed already.

xmas13 · 02-25-2008, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Vick!

you believe so because? Because, youtube said so. right?

Do you think its this easier to cause blackout? If it was, internet would have been collapsed already.

Get lost, moron, here we don't support terrorists and terrorist lovers. Move to Pakistan, asshole. You will see what they do to pornographers. You might lose your head.

u-Bob · 02-25-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Vick!

you believe so because? Because, youtube said so. right?

No, cuz I read NANOG.

sortie · 02-25-2008, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Eva PSC

it is funny how everybody here hates "illegal" tubes for stolen content yet everybody loves youtube and it is FULL of rips and stolen mainstream videos

Yeah, and when they finally stop hating tube sites and decide to build one
they steal the tube script.

Eva PSC · 02-25-2008, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by sortie

Yeah, and when they finally stop hating tube sites and decide to build one
they steal the tube script.

hahahaha

Vick! · 02-27-2008, 05:01 AM

Pakistan lifted the ban, after offensive content removed by YouTube.

Scott McD · 02-27-2008, 09:13 AM

Pakistan can lick my balls.

And then post the vid on YouTube...

SayWhut · 02-27-2008, 09:18 AM

If there was such a black out I wouldn't be surprised to see a whole world war against Pakistan coming up ....

TheDoc · 02-27-2008, 09:22 AM

If you look at YouTubes Alexa stats you can see the drop, just a blip in the overall scale of things, but you can still see it.

u-Bob · 02-27-2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by SayWhut

If there was such a black out I wouldn't be surprised to see a whole world war against Pakistan coming up ....

"if"??? There was a blackout.

SayWhut · 02-27-2008, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

"if"??? There was a blackout.

This means war ....

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u-Bob there's no $$$ in porn Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: icq: 195./568.-230 (btw: not getting offline msgs) Posts: 33,063	from NANOG: So, it seems that youtube's ip block has been hijacked by a more specific prefix being advertised. This is a case of IP hijacking, not case of DNS poisoning, youtube engineers doing something stupid, etc. For people that don't know. The router will try to get the most specific prefix. This is by design, not by accident. This is a case of censorship on the internet. Anyways, I hope this doesn't get into a political situation, and someone stops this.

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