Long blank video (1:46:39)

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) by duplicating several times the one in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbc7LWUL8g . This one too is completely empty: no images, no audio. It is uploaded here for experimental reuses in closed captioning platforms. Obviously, it is in the public domain, even though YT does not offer this licensing option.

Update Jan 14, 2012: As I tried to explain in the comments to irate/baffled/amused viewers. I uploaded this video for a purely instrumental purpose: seeing how online collaborative subtitling/captioning instruments can be diverted to collaboratively translate normal texts, and to then export the translation, as you would export the file of translated subtitles.
Of course, you can also collaboratively translate on a wiki page, but the advantage of doing it in a subtitling app is that the original text above the translated part cannot get deleted: this makes revision easier.

I started toying with this 2 and half years ago with DotSUB: see http://etcjournal.com/2009/04/05/collaborative-text-translation-with-dotsub/ . But the problems with DotSUB for that are that a) it does not allow you to have subtitles longer that what its programmers deemed suitable; b) subtitles HAVE to be time-coded and can only be exported in time-coded formats, and it's a bore to have to delete all the time codes if what you want is just a plain text translation of a normal text.
So I decided to try again with Universal Subtitles, where you can transcribe without time-coding. and where you can translate the "non time-coded" transcript, and export the translation as a .txt file.
So I used this irritating blank video to create http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/xHZzawTR9MLF/ , to which I added, as if it were a transcript of the video, Cory Doctorow's "Constitutional Crisis" short story (1). And then I started to translate it in Italian in the http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/xHZzawTR9MLF/it/222759/ subpage: click on "Edit Subtitles" if you wish to see the translation interface.
That's all this empty video is about: just a means to create a translating interface for a text that is just a text.

Update Nov. 7, 2012 Changes to the Amara software made it impossible to re-use the already used "subtitle sets": I therefore asked for the deletion of the above-mentioned page, and made a new one in http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/69iJjyH8euXi/info/long-blank-video-14639/ .

(1) from his "With a Little Help" collection, whose text can be bought in print or downloaded under a , under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ license as a digital file from http://craphound.com/walh/e-book/browse-all-versions
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Update March 5, 2012:
As people inexplicably continue to view this empty video, I'm annotating it with links to real videos of interest. So far:
- Say NO to ACTA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
- " Se la mafia... Il mulo de Paniz" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8m7-pMJ_c (see description for interesting links)
- "Listening is learning" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67wV-MhlY8
- V4B - Video4Blind ("Ho scelto il Costa di Lecce! (V4B)" http://youtu.be/K_BidSCokLc

(June 16, 2012)
And now: Don't Leave Me Out, with subs so far in English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian: http://youtu.be/w91A_nB4rx0 .
The video can be subtitled into further languages at http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/zBpewNm5P8GV/info/dont-leave-me-out/ .

[Music]

[Laughter]

the Smurf attack is a distributed

denial-of-service attack in which large

numbers of Internet control message

protocol in packets with the intended

victim spoofed source IP are broadcast

to a computer network using an IP

broadcast address most devices on a

network will by default respond to this

by sending a reply to the source IP

address if the number of machines on the

network that receive and respond to

these packets is very large the victims

container will be flattered with traffic

this can slow down the victims computer

to the point where it becomes impossible

to work on in the late 1990s many IP

networks would participate in Smurf

attacks if prompted that is they would

respond to written requests sent to

broadcast addresses the name comes from

the idea of very small but numerous

attackers overwhelming a much larger

opponent see smurf today administrators

can make a network immune to such abuse

therefore very few networks remain

vulnerable to smurf attacks the fix is

twofold one configure individual hosts

and routers to not respond to the

requests or broadcasts or to configure

routers to not forward packets directed

to broadcast addresses until 1999

standards required routers to forward

such packets by default since then the

default standard was changed to not

forward such packets another proposed

solution is network ingress filtering

which rejects the attacking packets on

the basis of the forged source address

an example of configuring a router so it

will not forward packets to broadcast

addresses for a Cisco router is router

can

pants I know if directed broadcast this

example does not protect a network from

becoming the target of Smurf attack it

merely prevents the network from

participating in a smurf attack a smurf

amplifier is a computer network that

lends itself to being used in a smurf

attack Smurfs amplifiers asked to worsen

the severity of a smurf attack because

they are configured in such a way that

they generate a large number of attempt

replies to the victim at the spoofed

source IP address a Fraggle attack is a

variation of a smurf attack where an

attacker sends a large amount of ugh

traffic to port 7 echo and 19 target to

an IP broadcast address with the

intended victim spoofed floors IP

address it works very similar to the

Smurf attack in that many computers on

the network will respond to this traffic

by sending traffic back to the spoofed

source IP of the victim flooding it with

traffic fraggle da see the source code

of the attack was also released by freak