Indeed, if they popped it on a server for lesser videos, and it got more popular than they intended, that could cause it to stop working for a while.
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > My ISP lost my e-mail address and credit card number, and then pulled > LENR-CANR.org off-line today because the bill was 30 days overdue. I > suggested they should have looked at the front page of the web site because > it has my name, phone number and e-mail address. Very annoying! It should be > back on line momentarily. > > More ominously, the CBS news site showing the cold fusion segment does not > work. This could be a technical problem because the site is still there, but > it does not play: > > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n > > This site says the video disappeared even though it was popular: > > http://sitfu.blogspot.com/2009/04/cbs-censors-cold-fusion-video-was.html > > "CBS Censors Cold Fusion Video - Was Fourth Most Popular > > Dear friends, > > The highly revealing 12-minute video clip from 60 Minutes on the fascinating > resurgence of cold fusion I mentioned in a message yesterday has now been > removed by CBS. I highly suspect media censorship at work here. A supporter > emailed to tell me that the embedded video from an article I had posted on > this at examiner.com was not working. Checking back on my original links to > the video revealed that a weak clip of less than two-minutes had replaced > the engaging, longer original. > > After some careful research, I discovered that the 12-minute video had moved > up to the fourth most popular on the entire CBS website. Following the link > on the CBS video page in the "Most Viewed Videos" section at the bottom, I > found that though there were 70 comments posted under the video, it no > longer functioned. I suspect someone didn't want us to see that video. What > other reason would there be to censor this powerful clip? For more on this, > see the informative article I posted here. > > Please take advantage of the power of the Internet to spread the word, so > that we can break through this kind of censorship. . . ." > > I suspect this person is wrong, because if the MIB did not want us to see > it, they would not leave the non-functioning screen. > > > > > > Earlier, Steve Krivit reported that the video has been altered: > > http://newenergytimes.com/v2/blog/?p=74 > > "'We asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in > America, to recommend an independent scientist,' the narrator said. 'They > gave us Rob Duncan.' > > The sentence referring to the American Physical Society has been removed > from the video and replaced with the following text, 'We asked another > distinguished physicist to have a look at the research.' There were no other > apparent changes to the video." > > > - Jed > >
