YouTube streams are down on Boxee, but not blocked

Last night Boxee users apparently noticed they were unable to stream YouTube videos via their app or Boxes as noted above by TheNewTVRepublic , leading to some speculation that we were seeing a repeat of licensing related blocking that once shut down access on Popcorn Hour hardware . Fortunately that’s not the case, as the official YouTube account just tweeted out a notice that it’s only a glitch which it is working to address “quickly.” We’ll return to DEFCON level 4 pending an actual fix, but until then the latest series of Vote 4 Bieber My YouTube entries will just have to wait. YouTube streams are down on Boxee, but not blocked originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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