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Videos have Net bursting at the seams
As Web's capacity nears its limits, debate rages over what to do next

By Jon Van
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 23, 2007

Those amusing YouTube video clips that Internet users send to friends gobble up large chunks of bandwidth and may cause the Net to crash, some elements of the telecom industry warn.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/techno...i-bizfront-hed

milkman

02-25-2007 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luv

You've still got congeniality hands down. :)

You're damn right.

Sam Hall

02-25-2007 11:42 PM

Johnny Cash: defiant until the end.

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2Vb5jUj5MpQ"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2Vb5jUj5MpQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Simplex3

02-26-2007 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sam Hall

I like fire

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pU5RFJjsMiI"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pU5RFJjsMiI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

:shake:

F**king rednecks. Holy crap.

1. How long can you possibly be entertained by that? "Wooo! Woooo! Woooooo!"

2. There was so much lighter fluid on those pallets a stiff fart would have set them ablaze.

3. I'm disappointed that the gas tank didn't explode, killing them all.

Simplex3

02-26-2007 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sam Hall

My videos may cause the Internet to crash?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/techno...i-bizfront-hed

The funniest part is that it's the very same snapperheads running commercials non-stop about my online, video, and phone worlds coming together.

:hmmm:

boogblaster

02-26-2007 07:49 AM

ever eat a pinecone