Vostrocity
July 4th, 2009, 04:51 AM
*Don't click on links if you're on Windows
Chicago's 4th of July fireworks just finished but I didn't watch it on TV so I went over to YouTube to see if anyone had it uploaded already. [link (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chicago+fireworks+2009&search_type=&aq=f)] Well the results were interesting. The top four results all claim their video was removed for copyright and point you to a weird link like this "http://niv.0wned.pl/chicagof12/" which then redirects you to a url like xxxxx.watch-hd.com (all of the videos redirect you to a different subdomain of watch-hd.com). The different subdomains are all the same page, which happens to be a stock Wordpress template with dummy links and a non-working YouTube player. Clicking on the non-working YouTube player then links you to another page with a working YouTube embed player that plays a video of fireworks. But then clicking on that player gets you to a legit YouTube page with the actual video that turns out to not have anything to do with the first four uploaders. I also checked watch-hd.com and all it does is redirect to Google. The whois lookup for it points it to a company in Kiev, UA. Googling watch-hd.com doesn't turn up anything related. Anyone figure it out what this is about? Weird stuff like this always interests me.
:-D
Chicago's 4th of July fireworks just finished but I didn't watch it on TV so I went over to YouTube to see if anyone had it uploaded already. [link (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chicago+fireworks+2009&search_type=&aq=f)] Well the results were interesting. The top four results all claim their video was removed for copyright and point you to a weird link like this "http://niv.0wned.pl/chicagof12/" which then redirects you to a url like xxxxx.watch-hd.com (all of the videos redirect you to a different subdomain of watch-hd.com). The different subdomains are all the same page, which happens to be a stock Wordpress template with dummy links and a non-working YouTube player. Clicking on the non-working YouTube player then links you to another page with a working YouTube embed player that plays a video of fireworks. But then clicking on that player gets you to a legit YouTube page with the actual video that turns out to not have anything to do with the first four uploaders. I also checked watch-hd.com and all it does is redirect to Google. The whois lookup for it points it to a company in Kiev, UA. Googling watch-hd.com doesn't turn up anything related. Anyone figure it out what this is about? Weird stuff like this always interests me.
:-D