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MySpace now off the grid

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

MySpace off the grid. The DoD's global information grid to be exact. They are not the only site to get the plug pulled on them. Other sites include: youtube.com, pandora.com, photobucket.com, live365.com, hi5.com, metacafe.com, mtv.com, ifilm.com, blackplanet.com, stupidvideos.com and filecabi.com.

Well given the number of personell that the DoD has stationed across the world and the amount of boredom and stress that some of these site's have probably been relieving I would bet that you will see significant drops in usage at some of the majore sites mentioned such as MySpace and Youtube.

Blocks only affect Department of Defense computers and local area networks that are part of the department's global information grid. The department has more than 15,000 local and regional networks and more than 5 million computers in the grid.

Of course according to the DoD this restriction only applies to computers that are part of their global information grid. If DoD personell use their own ISP or connect on their own outside the grid they will not be affected. Unfortunately were alot of these folks are the only connection that they have to the Internet is through this grid.

What do you think? Will this hold up or will we see work arounds to this? Is there anyway to work around this? I would love to hear your take on it drop me a line or leave a comment.

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