"Rebecca Black... due to copyright complaint from Rebecca Black"

What.

Again, I think it all depends on how this whole idea develops.

We got to remember that YouTube are simply adding this feature, and is not forcing it on all popular videos. The owner of the video has an option to either turn this renting service on, or disable it all together for his videos. Even if he chooses to enable it, the money goes to him and does not reach YouTube - not all of it anyway.

Having said that though, I would never pay to watch someone like "freddiew". Not going to happen.

This is why I love DICE.

Community says no, DICE re-thinks and adapts.

I love you DICE - Take my money.

Also EA, because its usually up to them what happens with this DLC nonsense, since they are the publishers.

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Quote from DeKo :

Who hasn't seen Trainspotting and Human Traffic?

I have seen it a million times by now, quite literally.

Its one of those movies you can stick on any time and still enjoy it.

Trainspotting.

Human traffic.

wat.

Yeah, memory devices... and stuff...

Its been an emotional ride...

We are not going to agree it seems, so I see no point in writing a long reply. Simply put, in my opinion Ant could have done better in that situation. Thats it.

You think otherwise, and I'm fine with that.

Also the edit was to remove a paragraph in which I just repeated myself to what I said in...

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I dont even know why we are discussing lap times/tires now... The point is, blue flags should have been out, and Ant should have moved over. Not because the rules say so, but because he knows better as a driver. He was getting involved in a lead battle for no reason. He was 4 laps down, and was lapping slower. Albeit not by much while he was ahead, but enough to justify, "get the feck out of the way".

Chicane - Offshore

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They don't make 'em like this anymore!

Oh, and...

Paul Van Dyk - For an Angel

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They were hardly smoking them - slightly faster due to the pit strategies, but terms like smoking and halt are a bit strong

Huh? The reason their pit strategy worked, WAS because the drivers were pumping in blindingly quick laptimes. Peugeot were able to push out an extra lap in their stints, and yet Audi was still leading.That is simply due to outright pace. Especially when that beast Lotterer was in front of the wheel. During the night, yes the pace was similar. But you also got to remember Audi were still using the harder tires for most of the night shift, while Pug's were already pumping in laps on the softest compound.

And yes, the SC helped to some extent, but the pace was genuine and clearly faster than Peugeots. 3 seconds around Le Mans is considered to be quite a lot. I remember Audi were genuinely worried in 2008 when Peugeot was 3/4 seconds quicker...

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Exactly, there was no clear advantage in speed. If it was a clear air time trial, I'd support your view, but this is sportscar racing, and endurance at that. The Audi's were slower on the laps they encountered traffic not because they were necessarily held behind, but were unable to maintain the pace in dirty air.

That is bullshit... I'm sorry, it really is. Audi was able to make up all the time lost AND more through porsche curves, and the last sector overall. The only driver I can remember from the top of my head that was able to match Lotterer's fastest lap time was Pagenaud. But he was in the leading Peugeot, and has nothing to do with our discussion.

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The Audi was on new tyres, and the Peugeot's tyres were on there fourth stint. The Audi had been slower on old tyres too, so again its relative, and we are talking about the very closing stages here.

Pretty sure when they were battling with the number 7, they were both on very similar tires in terms of life time. And yes, even with that in mind, the Audi still broke free as soon as he got past Ant, and then Gene.

I dont even know why we are discussing lap times/tires now... The point is, blue flags should have been out, and Ant should have moved over. Not because the rules say so, but because he knows better as a driver. He was getting involved in a lead battle for no reason. He was 4 laps down, and was lapping slower. Albeit not by much while he was ahead, but enough to justify, "get the feck out of the way".

Midweek motorsports is on tonight at 8pm on Radio Le Mans. No doubt they will be discussing this same issue with their guests. Should be a good listen.

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Davidson didn't actually make any defensive blocking moves that I saw. He did maintain his line throughout. He just made it hard for Lotterer who had the responsibility to make a clean pass. Had Lotterer been significantly faster than Davidson, then I believe there would have been more blue flags shown, fault could have been shown, and a possible infraction for ignoring them.

I'm probably wrong, but blue flags at Le Mans are an advisory only, and there's no such "pass ten blue's and you break the rules". They warn the driver that the car or cars behind are significantly faster. The only time an official inquiry happens is when they are ignored by significantly slower car which create a safety concern. Davidson was shown few if any blue flags, and was a match for Lotterers speed within a second or two. #7 was only a couple of laps down due to the off that Wurz had, and not because it had been consistently slower.

Anthony was 4 laps down... Lotterer was smoking all the Pugs in terms of laptimes, and had to crawl to a halt when he got stuck behind the number 7. The main reason he could not get past was because Audi was simply not quick enough on the straights, and as soon as he would get out of the slipstream, the Pug would run away again. Anyway, there is no question Ant was blocking, because the couple of times Lotterer was going for a move, Anthony would just retake his line, cutting off the Audi, instead of just saying, "OK, you managed to take the line and I am 4 laps down, so I'll let you go now". I'm not even going to mention Gene and his attempts to keep Lotterer behind in the closing hours... It could have very easily ended up in a wall and then Peugeot would have had an unfair, undeserved win. Needless to say their reputation would have gone down the drain...

And no, blue flags were not shown. Not a single one. Instead, ACO called in Dr.Ullrich and warned them for, "not respecting track limits". Well here is a tip genius, get some blue flags out so they don't have to go off track in the Porsche curves to get by a car that is not in contention anymore.

To finish off, Lotterer quickly left the 7 in the dust when he finally managed to sneak past, so to say he was not quick enough is just ridiculous.

Ant was dumb, Gene was damn right retarded with that move in the chicane. Peugeot were desperate, and nearly ruined whats now one of Le Mans classics.

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Nothing a few tablets cant fix.

I'm seriously "jelly" of that man. I too want to be banging smoking hot chicks when I am 85.

What girl?

Its not about getting an edge over others when it launches, its about simple principals.

This whole DLC thing these days has got way out of hand.

Well they dont need to know... People just tell them who to take down, and if they like it, they proceed to do so.

But yeah, someone call in and tell them to take iRacing.

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I can still log into Minecraft just fine, so they can't have done that much damage to them.

Yeah Minecraft was quick to recover. It was definitely down though.

OK, this is getting silly now.

The damn ****s are taking everything down, for no reason. I bet if someone requested "LFS" on their "hotline", this would crumble too.

Some of their latest victims:

EscapistMagazine - Minecraft - EVE Online, wiped the whole login server! The whole damn thing.

Game companies being hacked and details leaked all over the tubes... Bethesda being the latest one. Why? For "lulz" and not releasing more info on Skyrim...

Is security really so weak these days that a bunch of kids can face roll over whatever they desire? Are we at the point that companies need so called organisations like, "LulzSec" to realise they need to toughen up their defences?

Victor, I hope you have patched up every single hole...

Seriously... Its getting too far now. It was all fun and games at first, with some, albeit very little meaning behind it. But this is just stupid now.

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It was because of very heavy traffic. It was either that, or shunt one of the GT's...

Plus I'm pretty sure the Pug was already lapped...

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Underworld - Born Slippy

This will never get old. Never.

Well Anthony was blocking, but Gene nearly took Lotterer out altogether...

Everyone knows that... Buts its a bit like the tellie... For example, if I wanted to start watching something like, "Game of Thrones" I would have to find a channel that streams it, and then hope it starts from the first episode, which is damn unlikely. Justin TV is all about live... We're talking more about on-demand.

And yes, a simple Google search would bring up websites where I can watch it, but more times than not the video quality is horrible, and there are stupid things like time-limits and whatnot...

Well there is nothing to discuss... French team in a French race.

This weeks "Midweek Motorsports" should be amazing, as its exactly what they are going to be talking about. Anthony Davidson might be even on I think.

Also, here is a high-res pic of Rocky's crash.

Well Netflix and Hulu are only available to US citizens, so I cant comment on it as I never used it. Thats not to say though I wouldnt like to use it... If they had something like that going for UK/Europe, I would gladly pay for it - Given the price is acceptable ofcourse.

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Please stop talking about this shit.

Who?

Rebecca Black?

To be honest I made the thread to discuss this new renting concept... Not to feed her. Used her as an example because AFAIK thats the only video at the moment that has it enabled.

Anyway, I think its dumb. I cant see myself paying to watch what I do now. Never.

If they started uploading some TV shows, maybe some documentaries or stuff like that, then yeah, why not. I would probably use it. But for other users channels, never going to happen.