The 2008-Aug-01 outage happened because the S E B primary streaming server experienced an IP address change. Unless you re-clicked the standard Listen link, you couldn’t connect.
I remember it well. It was a seismic-caliber incident.
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Wow. I even wrote a blog post about it.
Which is both (a) succinct and (b) woefully outdated.