You Tube?

[DrewCCU]

Is You Tube f'd up for anyone else?  The site doesn't seem to be loading for me.

[Gamer_V]

It's just down. Not that much of a drama.

[lo_res_man]

To possibly misquote Yahtzee in his last 'Zero Punctuation' YouTube video "Posting something on YouTube is like throwing a message in a bottle into an ocean consisting of nothing but messages in bottles" I guess the beach is closed.

[Ghost]

I have no troubles watching clips of up to 4 minutes. Longer ones tend to freeze, but I put that up to my fragile internet connection...

[lo_res_man]

Yes, it is up again. I havn't been whatching any long videos, but from what I have seen, she be up.

[Andail]

Sites go down and up all the time, everywhere, no need to report it here.

[m0ds]

LOL, sorry about this (andail) but that thread got locked, and I thought it was interesting to know the story behind it. It did go down, I had problems too - apparently a phone engineer in Pakistan tripped over a cable or something and took out half the internet by accident :p

Naturally there is other speculation, lol;

Reports said Pakistan made the move because YouTube content included Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have outraged many.

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

ps you may want to merge this with the old thread

[Nikolas]

Fucking insane close minded people! 

(there is nothing in my post to indicate I'm talking about islam actually. It's more about the people who take those decisions than anything else!)

[Babar]

Hahahaha!

What an absurd turn of events. I didn't realise it was so easy to mess up so much.

The world FEELS OUR PAIN! Or at least it did, for a little while.

* Babar is somewhat inconvenienced by the proxies he has to go through to watch videos now

[Vince Twelve]

It's sad that the Pakistani government would use something as silly as objecting to a cartoon as a cover story for what is obviously another dictatorial move to hinder the flow of information.  The Military Junta already controls the major pakistani media outlets and wishes to control the internet as well.  This has way more to do with the current allegations of vote rigging and less to do with some cartoon.

[twin-moon]

According to reports, a Pakistani ISP tried to implement the government edict not by blocking the traffic but by changing network routing so that attempts to reach YouTube were directed to another IP address.

But the way the Internet works meant this route spread outside Pakistan, and YouTube's site became unavailable to a growing number of users around the world until the bogus route announcements were stemmed and YouTube issued new routes to undo the damage.

Pakistan hacks YouTube...

EDIT: my information is from http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16832/53/