Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus

Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by anc84 on Monday June 15, 2015 @10:51AM (#9719667)

> She did make that movie, she called it “Offline,” and she handed me a copy. It’s like El Packete, going in the other direction, and this time with meaningful content: I brought it back with me to the U.S. I hope you will watch it today.

Links to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPiG-pDvGA which of course is blocked in Germany because

> Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country because it could contain music from UMG, for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA.

Gate-keepers here, gate-keepers there. Youtube is a proprietary service that (can) arbitrarily disable access to whatever you shove into it. Please always remember that. If you want to spread your creations without other people controlling them, consider P2P or hosting them yourself.

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Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by Liblor on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:29AM (#9719939)

I use a VPN that tunnels through Sweden and I just got the GEMA "error message", but I don't even live in Germany (so information leak should not be the case). After changing the VPN exit node to another country, it worked. "Gate-Keepers" can be a problem, but hosting videos on your own can be quite expensive, so I'd recommend to use several distribution ways/different hosters.

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