I just _love_ doom day’s scenario’s, as there is always - at least - some truth in them. That and they are funny. So sit back, relax and have good look at how the allied Open Source community drives our Führer to madness and defeat. This creepy parody on our Brave New Virtual World called Second Life is conceived by Crystal Studio’s.
“At least we still have Orientation Island… WITH AN 80 DROP OUT RATE!!! Who’s idea was it to make it that stupid! I tried to go there last night… to reassure myself. I like, I rode the segway BUT I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET OFF IT!! THEN I GOT STUCK IN THE GROUND!!11” Hitler
This is really confusing. As far as I know, the IP is to blame. If Germans and the French may not see this, why am I, who lives inbetween those two countries - allowed to see this. So it’s not a Euro-thing.
It may be a Germany and France limitation, where, I believe, it is illegal to display Nazi paraphernalia, the swastika, or other things ’sympathetic’ to Nazi Germany.
Maybe the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. have more sane free speech laws.
For Belgium I don’t know, for the Netherlands I know both Soviet and Third Reich WWII insignia are forbidden. (That is, wearing them on the street.)
But in the Netherlands recently a film about WWII was made (it was even promoted with a SL casting for the lead role, in SL then) and as they can’t make a movie on WWII without Germans (ah well, not that movie), I don’t think it counts for films and such too. And as far as I know, you can get Axis of Allies in Germany as well as in France. ;)
I do know that other websites, like eBay and Google, have had to put in ‘Nazi’ filters to please the German government. Perhaps it’s on a case by case basis and someone complained to YouTube about it and they quickly censored it. Even worse would be YouTube preemptively censoring it because they thought someone from those countries would complain.
Conclusion: Countries still don’t know how to handle their history - geeh, make the subject ‘discussable’ instead of just banning everything - and thank god for proxies? ;)
Der Untergang is, obviously, a German movie. And a respected one at that; I have only read positive reviews, including reviews from the German press. This movie definitely isn’t banned in Germany.
As far as I know, it’s the selling of Nazi paraphernalia that’s banned on ebay etcetera, because most of the market for those goods is with the neonazis. Youtube clips that spread a positive message about nazis are probably banned as well, but probably on a case by case basis.
Maybe there’s copyrights involved? They did after all take a clip from a copyrighted German movie. But that would be nitpicking, wouldn’t it..
Care to comment?
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I. Laughed. My. Ass. Off!!!!
Too late, too bad!
The video is no longer available…
Has somebody saved a copy?
Sofian, to me it’s still available. Maybe it was something temporarily?
Somebody must have cast a spell on me…still no longer available…
I have it. It seems to download for me. Cracks me up… lol
And again…
http://secondlifesofian.blogspot.com/2008/01/cursed.html
I just have to imagine and laugh inside me;)
Oh, poor Sofian! Maybe it has something to do with the location you’re in - according to youtube - or the age you have - according to youtube?
I’ve ‘posted’ it to SecondLifeVideo (using the youtube embed code), so you can try if you can watch it there:
Der Untergang - dubbed SL version on SecondLifeVideo
Else, try watching it by surfing to that page using a proxy.
I can´t watch it too “.. no longer available”
Is there a censor for germans at you-tube like at the damned flickr ?
Still working for me and still making me laugh more than a big bag of laughing things…
Yessss!
At last it works with your second (life) link Vink:))
https://www.beatfiltering.com/index.php/1010110A/ffe16c2f8de2cc52aced3eca2a73edcde4d8d9d6c5f602425cddf2c3b309b47095d811d6c9ea5eecd3d915380
What I retained from the movie: Internet is a cruel mistress:(
Ha-ha!
Thank you very much for the nice funny moment!
Then probably, indeed, the problem lays with your IP’s. Don’t ask me why, because, Sofian, you’re not in Germany, right?
Right, I am French.
So, are French prevented from watching German movies?
Retaliation measures should be taken.
Achtung!
This is really confusing. As far as I know, the IP is to blame. If Germans and the French may not see this, why am I, who lives inbetween those two countries - allowed to see this. So it’s not a Euro-thing.
It may be a Germany and France limitation, where, I believe, it is illegal to display Nazi paraphernalia, the swastika, or other things ’sympathetic’ to Nazi Germany.
Maybe the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. have more sane free speech laws.
For Belgium I don’t know, for the Netherlands I know both Soviet and Third Reich WWII insignia are forbidden. (That is, wearing them on the street.)
But in the Netherlands recently a film about WWII was made (it was even promoted with a SL casting for the lead role, in SL then) and as they can’t make a movie on WWII without Germans (ah well, not that movie), I don’t think it counts for films and such too. And as far as I know, you can get Axis of Allies in Germany as well as in France. ;)
I do know that other websites, like eBay and Google, have had to put in ‘Nazi’ filters to please the German government. Perhaps it’s on a case by case basis and someone complained to YouTube about it and they quickly censored it. Even worse would be YouTube preemptively censoring it because they thought someone from those countries would complain.
Conclusion: Countries still don’t know how to handle their history - geeh, make the subject ‘discussable’ instead of just banning everything - and thank god for proxies? ;)
Der Untergang is, obviously, a German movie. And a respected one at that; I have only read positive reviews, including reviews from the German press. This movie definitely isn’t banned in Germany.
As far as I know, it’s the selling of Nazi paraphernalia that’s banned on ebay etcetera, because most of the market for those goods is with the neonazis. Youtube clips that spread a positive message about nazis are probably banned as well, but probably on a case by case basis.
Maybe there’s copyrights involved? They did after all take a clip from a copyrighted German movie. But that would be nitpicking, wouldn’t it..
Care to comment?