Global Fan Action for May 1

One million views. The goal is to show, by our viewing of the video Ich Bin Da on Universal Music’s channel, that we love and support the band. Here is a brief description of the fan action, as well as how fans from other countries are able to view the video. (damn youtube restrictions). We are already starting to watch it, to drive the view count up and up and up.

“It would be a great idea if all the fans would watch Universal’s video of Ich bin da on May 1st 2009, as May Day is a day off in many countries. The goal is to show our support to Tom, the boys, their families and friends by dramatically increasing the numbers of views of this video.

Ich bin da seems the most adequate video for obvious reasons. There are many Ich bin da videos out there but it is important that we all click on the same one. The Universal version currently has less than 20 000 views, so the increase should be noticeable.

It would be great if this idea could spread in every TH forums and websites to make the action more potent.

And here is how you can view it, and get around the “not available in your country”.
Workaround #1
Use this awesome site: http://w2.hidemyass.com/

and put in the box the Ich bin da link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__sdmB7nmw

Workaround #2
If this doesn’t do the trick, another solution has been proposed by scarletswidow: use a Mexican IP address! Here’s how to proceed:

Address: 200.65.129.2
Port: 80

In Firefox
Tools > Options > Advanced > click on Network tab > Settings > click the Manual proxy configuration radio button > copy the IP address in the HTTP Proxy box and the port number in to the Port box > click Ok > clear your cookies and cache

In IE 7
Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab > click on the LAN Settings button (at the bottom) > check the proxy server box > paste the IP into the Address box and port into Port > clear cache and cookies

To turn the proxy off just uncheck the box.

Have fun.