Irrepressible.info for video
Irrespressible.info (take a look if you've not seen it, otherwise this wont make sense) is a site which republishing information that someone wants to try and hide - items on democracy which are banned inside china for example.
We talked about this very briefly at the convention.
Doing this for video (and pdf etc - it's all regular expressions) is insanely easy. If there are people willing to help mirror stuff (and there will be).
Firstly, write a piece of javascript which blog authors can embed in their blogs, which will push all the youtube, vimeo, mp3 etc URLs up to a server which publishes the full list. Then you have many clients all hitting the list at random and mirroring all/some of the material to their own private, local, copies.
Because someone has gone to the trouble to issue a takedown request, it must matter to someone. More importantly, as the mirroring is automatic, the blog owner can take the material down, without having to worry that it's not there. More complex javascript could notice that the link is no longer in that page and flag that as something potentially interesting - that way, blog owners wouldn't even need to proactively publish that stuff had been taken down, the entire system would just notice.
This is something I've mentioned before. Anyone want to built it at Rewired State next Saturday?
drop me an email if so.
We talked about this very briefly at the convention.
Doing this for video (and pdf etc - it's all regular expressions) is insanely easy. If there are people willing to help mirror stuff (and there will be).
Firstly, write a piece of javascript which blog authors can embed in their blogs, which will push all the youtube, vimeo, mp3 etc URLs up to a server which publishes the full list. Then you have many clients all hitting the list at random and mirroring all/some of the material to their own private, local, copies.
Because someone has gone to the trouble to issue a takedown request, it must matter to someone. More importantly, as the mirroring is automatic, the blog owner can take the material down, without having to worry that it's not there. More complex javascript could notice that the link is no longer in that page and flag that as something potentially interesting - that way, blog owners wouldn't even need to proactively publish that stuff had been taken down, the entire system would just notice.
This is something I've mentioned before. Anyone want to built it at Rewired State next Saturday?
drop me an email if so.
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