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NPAC Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: Robin Rowland on August 06, 2012, 12:52 PM
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For those who were watching the amazing live coverage of the Mars landing or tried to get the first images last night, it is well known that the NASA servers were overloaded.
There is growing controversy this morning, however, over the blocking of the images on Youtube. There the problem wasn't an overloaded server, but the ability of large media organizations to block Youtube feeds. According to blogs, NASA's feed was blocked by a copyright bot acting on behalf of "Scripps Local News"
See
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown (http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown)
(Rant: One of the reasons individual creators have such difficulty convincing people that copyright is a valid issue is the attitude of the large corporations to copyright enforcement which likes use blockbuster bombs causing lots of collateral damage)