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I hope they're ready for the mad traffic rush of crazed teen girls. I mean, does anyone else watch MTV anymore?

It was also funny that they mentioned Flavor Flav, and being able to see how he lives. I was actually at a Hampton Inn in Covington, Kentucky (just south of Cincinnati), and he was staying there with like 1 or 2 guys (at least that's all that was with him when I saw him). This place was by no means a luxury hotel, so I got a small chuckle out of the whole thing.

Awesome! I'm wearing a Justin.TV t-shirt right now! He's less monotone now than he used to be on day 2. You know, I never realized that there is no stabilization going on, and that Justin has to make sure he rarely moves his head. I never realized that. I could never do something like that!

I'm in Canada, and they blocked everyone outside of the U.S.

Use my http proxy. It doesn't work too well with most rich media, though.

http://www.granmos.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi or https://www.granmos.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi

Thanks :), but the embedded flash seems to show up blank. Anyone outside the U.S. getting a different result?

Works okay from .jp

Why would they block people outside the US?

Advertising. Their advertisers are probably only paying for views inside the US, so anything they serve outside of the US is throwing away bandwidth for them. Giving away their content still helps their brand if they ever expand to those countries, but even in an expansion there can be different owners involved, among other factors that complicate the whole scenario.

A bigger problem is that if any MTV content is syndicated on other networks outside the US, MTV would be breaking their contract by showing videos to non-US viewers. These types of contracts worked well when everything was based on TV, which has fairly definite boundaries, but hopefully we don't see these types of restrictions in another five years or so.

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