Indonesia Pulls the Plug

As I reported last week, the Indonesian government threatened to shut YouTube out of the Indonesian market if it failed to remove copies of Geert Wilders’ movie Fitna from its site. YouTube did not comply, and the Indonesian government has followed through on its threat: local ISPs have been forced to block YouTube and MySpace.

In the photo that accompanies the news story you can see a screen cap of a Fitna video being watched by an Indonesian. There’s no way to tell if it’s a version subtitled in Indonesian — the frame in the screenshot has no text — but based on the traffic that has arrived here from Indonesia over the last week, the Indonesian translation of the movie, as well as the existence of a version of Fitna subtitled in Indonesian, were widely known in the archipelago.

So I’d like to think that we played our little part in this sordid drama.

Try this google search. The last time I attempted it, Gates of Vienna was second on the list, the first non-Indonesian site in the search results. Not only that, this search puts us in the top two positions. Thus it’s no surprise that Indonesians wind up here when they attempt to watch what their government wants to hide from them.

So for all our Indonesian readers: the YouTube version is unavailable, but until your government bans the ZippyShare, Rapid Share, and Pirate Bay versions, you can still download and watch Fitna.

I’ve posted a new version of the Fitna download table below the jump. But first, here’s the news story from AFP:

Indonesia blocks YouTube, MySpace over Dutch film

JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesia has blocked access to YouTube, MySpace and other websites showing an anti-Islamic film that has sparked widespread protests, Internet providers said Tuesday.

Indonesia’s main Internet providers said they had acted on a government request to block websites showing the film.

The move came after the communications minister last week wrote to the file-sharing site, YouTube, asking it to remove the 17-minute film, “Fitnah,” made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders.

“We apologise, we have for the time being blocked sites and blogs which carry ‘Fitna,’ at the request of the minister for communication and IT,” Internet provider Speedy said on its website.

Speedy said it had stopped users accessing eight different sites, including blogs that carried the film.

Another provider, Radnet, told users it was “temporarily closing access” to YouTube and MySpace, a popular social networking site, at the minister’s request.

[…]

The minister wrote to Internet providers last week asking them to block access to sites that carried the film on the grounds that it could “disturb religious and civil harmony at a global level.”

Muslim groups here have held several protests outside the Dutch embassy in the capital Jakarta.

Most have passed off peacefully, but last Wednesday dozens of members of a Muslim student group attacked a Dutch consulate building on Sumatra island, burning a flag and breaking down the gates.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has banned screenings of the film and barred Wilders from entering Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation with some 90 percent of its 230 million people following Islam.

Below are the Fitna download links. I recently added a version with subtitles in Greek (thanks, Gaia):
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Update: I revised the table below to remove three dead links (thanks to an alert reader) . Evidently Rapid Share is being targeted, because the three links were all from that site, and returned the same message:

This file has been deleted.
Reason: THIS FILE IS FORBIDDEN TO BE SHARED! Complaints received.

ID	Language	Venue	Format	Notes
36		AJM		dedicated server - very fast
2		Isohunt		links to torrent sites
7		Linkpin	AVI	Divx 5.0
5		Linkpin	MPEG-4, Perian	mp4+iPod
6		Linkpin	WMV/A 9 Standart
46		Viddler	FLV	easily downloadable if you are a Viddler member
48		YouTube
8	Czech	Pravda o Islámu
27	Danish	The Pirate Bay	torrent
39	Dutch	JewTube
38	English	Daily Motion		flagged as inappropriate - must register to see it
32	English	Google Video
34	English	Google Video
24	English	Gulli
25	English	Gulli
40	English	JewTube
43	English	LiveLeak		unofficial
44	English	LiveLeak		with content warning
14	English	Rapid Share	AVI
16	English	Rapid Share	FLV
12	English	Rapid Share	FLV
10	English	Rapid Share	FLV
21	English	Rapid Share	FLV
11	English	Rapid Share	FLV
9	English	Rapid Share	FLV
17	English	Rapid Share	ZIP
26	English	The Pirate Bay	torrent
55	English	Veoh
47	English	YouTube		requires registration
33	Farsi	Google Video
53	Farsi	YouTube
37	French	Bivouac-ID
4	French	La Yihad en Eurabia		from Français de Souche
35	German	Google Video
22	German	Rapid Share	MKV
45	German	SimpleUpload	MKV
61	Greek	Google Video		via Ελληνικεσ Γραμμεσ
59	Indonesian	Rapid Share	AVI
58	Indonesian	The Pirate Bay	torrent
60	Indonesian	ZippyShare	AVI
42	Italian	Lisistrata	WMV
41	Italian	Lisistrata	ZIP-WMV
56	Italian	YouTube
57	Italian	YouTube
29	Polish	The Pirate Bay	torrent
30	Polish	The Pirate Bay	torrent
49	Polish	ZippyShare
50	Polish	ZippyShare
52	Romanian	YouTube		Part 1
54	Romanian	YouTube		Part 2
19	Russian	Rapid Share	AVI
23	Russian	RuTube
28	Russian	The Pirate Bay	torrent
3	Spanish	La Yihad en Eurabia		from Anclaos
31	Tagalog	The Pirate Bay	torrent
51	Tagalog	ZippyShare

Hat tip: Henrik.