So tomorrow everyone signs up for the free Hurricane IPv6 tunnel which is meant to be used by developers and administrators for system testing, HE can't respond to the huge traffic and closes a free and extremely useful service?<p>Thumbs down. If you want to watch youtube, get out and fight GEMA, don't go and abuse free services.
This is fine for accessing YouTube from Germany, but it should be noted that IPv6 tunnels offer no encryption or authentication so don't trust them for tunneling out of truly oppressive regimes any more than you'd trust your native Internet connection.
The article mentions one drawback of VPNs: if you're using one to access the wider internet (rather than a specific LAN), then it's likely that all of your traffic goes through it.<p>One effective way around this, at least for those using VPNs in China, is to create a set of static routes forcing your in-country connections to go directly. This python program gets a list of China IP ranges from APNIC, and creates a shell script with a list of route commands:
<a href="https://github.com/jimmyxu/chnroute" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jimmyxu/chnroute</a>
One researcher at Peking University once told me that he uses IPv6 to access YouTube. As far as I could tell, it was available to all students and staff. Just a simple matter of selecting the right Wi-Fi network. :)