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Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

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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.

This is historically important material produced by a wholly owned subsidiary of a license-funded public broadcaster for a license-funded public broadcasting group. Of anything to complain about "lax copyright policies" and "becoming a treasure trove of pirated material" over, this would seem a particularly bad choice.

I sadly realize that this is a bad place to complain. But honestly I've encountered a significant amount of works of dubious copyright status (or clearly blatant copyright infringement) in the past months (and years), and this case kinda broke the proverbial camels back.

I probably should pick up blogging so that I could discuss these kinds of issues in a more neutral context, but so far HN feels more natural outlet for me.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

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God, someone can post 'Seriously?' and get a hellban and I cannot? Look in the mirror you sad fucks. I still have 312 "points" from you idiots. Try harder.

Eh, you know, if every opposing viewpoint were banned, we'd end up with (even more) groupthink.

Better to just make them feel 'naturally' unwelcome in this sick ecosphere of over-socialized nerds? Systems of re-enforcement like this are akin to the worst kind of intellectual inter-breeding.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

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PBS Newshour mentioned the interview on ARD http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/what-were-watching-sunda... but obviously cannot rebroadcast the interview unless ARD gave permission. AP also mentions it http://bigstory.ap.org/article/german-tv-snowden-says-nsa-al...

If you click through the Newshour link provided... it's a re-tread (a three sentences long mention) of the same AP story provided.

The links provided thus far in this thread (of which there are very few): either a.) are reporting that Snowden was-to-have an interview (not discussing the content therein) or b.) reduced a substantial interview to an inconsequential soundbite.

The NYT Blog - a blog post 3 days late.

Major super-duper props to the AP for writing about something globally noteworthy [sarc., as it's their mission to write about everything] in an article that few mainstream sources even carried.

There has been little (if any) meaningful discourse of Snowden's interview in mainstream US media, and, despite the video copyright entanglements - the coverage has amounted to what I'd call a "black out." (The article linked to is shit - as 'rdl' and 'dogcatcher' brought to light - but the point remains clear.)

All of this, despite the fact that the topic matter of the interview concerns the future of the internet -- arguably the greatest invention in the history of man.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

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We need to keep our paranoia in check. That article is B.S. — wrong on all the verifiable points. And the rest is just random guesses. I went and checked the German news (I'm American but lived in Germany 5 years, and am still fluent) and it turns out that ARD screwed the pooch on this one: the two most respected media outlets in Germany are pissed off and have written about ARD's shoddy editing and refusal to provid…

"Einmal mit Profis arbeiten!"

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

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For anyone that can host it, here's how to get the mp4. From: 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-...

"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

thanks the magnet. How did you download the video? I tried videograbber, flash video downloader, and download helper. All of them refused to work.

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"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

thanks the magnet. How did you download the video? I tried videograbber, flash video downloader, and download helper. All of them refused to work.

Just viewed the source and found the URL to the .mp4, grabbed it w/ curl and threw it into Transmission.
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