Fox News is now blocking ‘therightscoop’ in the embedding code of their videos!

Posted by The Right Scoop on March 9th, 2010 in Uncategorized | 37 Comments

I was trying to post clips made available from Fox News earlier today since it’s obvious they don’t want me recording and uploading their content to youtube. I decided to oblige them and just use their material.

But the clips wouldn’t post. I investigated and found they are blocking me in their code from video.foxnews.com!

The embed code looks like this:

I took the actual source link itself and pasted it in the address bar of my browser:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4096274&w=400&h=249

Go ahead, click the link above. It outputs their code with my domain in it (‘therightscoop’):

I’m not a javascript expert, but my guess is that the above is saying not to embed the video if the domain is therightscoop. Dang, I guess I really pissed them off!

I wonder if they knew I would find this? hmmmm.

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joeseales

You…got to be kidding me.
joeseales

Hold on I'll try it over at my place..
MSkiles27

– My God man!!!

Change the domain name and it will yield the JavaScript invalid.
Jordan

Hey Rightscoop,

Any chance that you could post summaries of Glenn's shows, allowing us to continue discussing GBS on your forms?
MSkiles27

The JavaScript on their website can be modified via a Userscript (http://userscripts.org/) created in GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748).
vivecarlos

If fox news was so objectionable to you posting these videos here don't you think they would've done this a VERY long time ago?? It's not like you were hiding or anything. We found this site very easily looking for a way to watch GBS from youtube. I bet that prick who you said ratted on you is some libtard with an ax to grind. He “watches it here too”…baaahh yeah right!
bsm138

How do other networks like MSNBC show clips of the show? Also, I thought that if an elected official is on that it becomes public, or am I completely wrong about that? This wouldn't apply to every show I realize.
vivecarlos

yes, yes…change the domain name please!! maybe just quit posting to youtube and keep it soley on your blog.
Schubert

Did I get my account reactivated?
Jordan

Haha, are in for an INTERNET TONGUE LASHING!!
MSkiles27

You didn't miss anything tonight on Glenn's show! – He even apologized at the end of the show (to the viewers) for wasting an hour of our time.

Basically, Massa contradicted himself throughout the show and eventually got called on it.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

did you get the same thing over there?
http://joerobertson.com Joe Robertson

Should tell you something about Fox News – they have also forced Judge Napolitano to pull his youtube account and removed the Constitution series.

Remember who owns FNC
Jordan

There is a chance that Fox actually was concerned about some of the people posting with the videos.

Today, I have come across other sites that stream Glenn Beck, some of which even have ads (which suggests they are making a profit off of Becks show), but none of them have 'comments' sections.
Jordan

Thanks man, glad to hear Glenn didn't try to make something out of nothing.
Tyler

Hmm…if you can email that to Scoop, then Scoop can let anybody who requests it get the info by emailing it to them. Good way to loop around this Jaghole Schubert's petty vengeance.
kdg1987

I wish I knew how to tape the show because I would but I do not have DVR or a camera to use. This sucks I really wanted to watch Glenn today now I have to wait until I go over to my father's to watch it on his DVR.
joeseales

Sorry, got caught up doing something.. Nope, it works on my site : /. It appears you are right. They are blocking your domain.
joeseales

Jordan- I see you found my site. Believe me- I'm not making a profit. I put the ads up to help with the costs of hosting the website. I barely make enough money at my real job to keep the internet turned on..so I wanted to try and make some extra revenue. I started doing this to provide a service to those who can't afford cable/satellite (and there are a lot of them these days)-and for those folks in other countries who do not have access to FNC programming. Those people are starving for any kind of truth right now. I get on average 5-10 e-mails everyday from people all around the world who are thankful for any chance to watch Fox News..and a GOOD majority of them are U.S. troops stationed overseas. Believe me, I don't make a profit. We're talking pennies every day..I'm lucky to make 10$ a week in ad revenue-but the ads are there to help with the cost of the site ($14.99 a month) plus the video service I just purchased from Vimeo ($9.99 a month)- and not to mention the 2-3 hours a day I spend cutting/uploading videos to YouTube/Vimeo..and just maintaining the site altogether..I have spent a lot of time on that site, and consider it my way of making a difference in all this mess.. But I don't suppose any of that matters anymore.. I'm sure the site will be down soon enough as it is.
liquidflorian

Eat a dick, Schubert! Way to ruin a good set up because you can't handle a difference of opinion douchenozzel! Die in a fire!
Tyler

Hey, yall. I found a site where you can get Glenn Beck AND Stossel.

Just ask Scoop to give you the link I emailed him to you.

WARNING: There ARE CONSPIRACY THEORY videos on there…BUT…Beck & Stossel ARE THERE in FULL EFFECT, AD-FREE and all.

You can even use the archives to scroll through and see PAST episodes of whatever the site has to offer, so…win-win.

Yeah. I am SO angry about wasting 40 minutes of my time watchin that Massa interview. I knew the dude was a lyin piece of crap about halfway through IF EVEN THAT.

Wow…just…WOW!!
sheya

Fox is going after YouTube uploads, the used to encourage it. Lately they have gone all out to get everything off. I am hearing from the inside that it's not Fox it's the cable companies who were complaigning that everything on Fox is available on the web there is no need for people to have cable. Fox is also putting a stop to Web Live streams which until recently were everywhere. You can now hardley find a Fosnews live stream on the web.

I got screwed with this to today, YouTube took down my channel with over 400 clips which were embedded all over the place.
Tyler

Well, I found another site without ads, but if the ad revenue is gonna help you out…then I say let Scoop give us YOUR site to go to.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

Tyler, he's cool. You should check his site out. I won't post it here because fox news is spending alot of time going through my site and they are on a rampage.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

yeah i think they are on a rampage. They even contacted my hosting provider and I've got 7 days to comply.
Tyler

Are you able to email me his site or no? I assume you have my email address.
rickj63

Why not just watch Beck at the fox news site? You have to sit through commercials but whats wrong with that? they own the content right?
sheya

Oh My! Is this about the Beck stuff or thier clips in general? What do they want you to comply with they've shut down your channel what else do they want?
Tyler

I guess that's what I get for not thinkin about it sooner. You can watch Stossel at the Fox Business site as well.

Problem solved.

I'm happy and Scoop…you've still got my input for whtever that's worth to ya.
tthedd

Yes, the Javascript does block you: Basically if “therightscoop” is in the domain name, it returns +1 which is greater than 0, and procedes to do nothing.

If no “therightscoop” is found in the domain name, it returns -1 (< 0) and procedes to write the embed code.

You should be able to get around their javascript by just manually putting the embed code into your post. Try copy/pasting the html into your post:

<iframe src=”http://video.foxnews.com/v/video-embed.html?video_id=4096274&w=400&h=249″ width=”400″ height=”249″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe>
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

Thanks for the explanation. I thought I was reading it right.

I also realized I could embed the code like that manually. I do find it interesting that they chose to block me though from embedding their clips that they supply. I've never heard of that happening before.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

I think I found a different way around it. So I'm embedding the code they supply and they can't complain about that. ha!
http://www.facebook.com/scottlarrison Scott Larrison

Can you send me the website too please?
Slippster

this kicks ass ! you guys rock, this is what i love about the internet …theres hundreds of ways to do the exact saame thing,…its like playing whack-a-mole..
they cant punch em all! heh
SDMF!!..ps if you have my email, ? shoot me those links Tyler had mentioned? i think its time to start a private “members only” forum where we can talk without prying eyes. so we can drop links within a conversation?
poptoy1949

Seems like the Arab Money they took is paying off. Lets hope FOX doesn't shift to the likes of MSNBC
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