Picturegate - Banned RTE report

Picturegate - Banned RTE report still online

Mark Humphrys, 28 Mar 2009.

RTE removed the link to its report on the Brian Cowen paintings from the Nine News, Mon 23 March 2009.

However, the original report is still online at RTE. You can play it by clicking here:

http://markhumphrys.com/rte.smil

Note that, contrary to appearances, I am not hosting the video. It is playing directly off RTE's server.

My SMIL file is just 17 lines of code (shown below) that plays the video off the RTE server.

Explanation

The original RTSP RM file of the entire show (58 M) remains at RTE.

RTE simply changed the HTTP SMIL file to jump over the offending segment.

But anyone can write their own SMIL file like this:

<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/SMIL20.dtd">

<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language">
    <body
        id="body_mainSequence">
    <par
        id="par_mainParallel">
    
        <video
                src="rtsp://od2.rte.ie/2009/0323/9news-218799-230.rm"
                clip-begin="00:28:12.7"
                clip-end="00:30:19.4"
                region="video"
                regAlign="center"
                regPoint="center"
                fit="meet"/>
     
    </par>
  </body>
</smil>

which plays the banned segment off the RTE server.

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