Rifftrax up?

[paradiso]

Hey folks! I've been trying to connect to Rifftrax for the past 2 days and come up with nothing. Are they down because of the YouTube thing? Or am I on my own in this regard.

[FredC]

No, it's down for me too. It was working for me yesterday, though.

[dangfish]

I was on it on Saturday. I couldn't get on Sunday night or this morning. Glad to know it's not just me.

[dangfish]

paradiso said:

Hey folks! I've been trying to connect to Rifftrax for the past 2 days and come up with nothing. Are they down because of the YouTube thing? Or am I on my own in this regard.

What youtube thing? I thought they were back on youtube. Is there is NEW youtube thing?

[gammer]

Are you reffering to the RiffTrax website or the forum?

If its the forum, try this address:

forum.rifftrax.com

(they moved the forum recently, but you should have been able to hit it with the old address)

[jetjaguar15]

According to the staff over there, it's a issue with godaddy - their host.

[conoratrifftrax]

To clarify the "Youtube thing", please refer to the text of this post I made on the RiffTrax forum. There is no "youtube thing", RiffTrax has not been "Targeted" by anyone, and it will not have any affect on the website whatsoever.

As we said from the beginning, it wasn't a "decision". There's no thought process put into it. A movie studio searches for the names of their movies, provides youtube with all the URLs that come up and they automatically take them down. If you respond, they forward your counter notice to the studio and the ball is then in their court to prove that there's any infringing material (which requires much more time and resources.) So they don't respond and youtube reinstates the material.

The lesson is to know how things work in case a work that you create is ever wrongfully take off line. It's really quite simple, a counter notice can be generated by this form: www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf

The website is down due to an issue with our host. Questions such of these are usually answered very quickly in the "Technical Support" area of the RiffTrax Forum.

[Tealeaf]

I wonder if the wildfires in California have anything to do with any disruptions the folks of Rifftrax might be having. I was living in Oakland during the Berkeley firestorm, and things were not normal there for a while after that. I just hope none of them were burned out of thier houses or anything!