YouTube Video Not Available in Your Country? How to Watch Blocked Videos on YouTube

I tried to watch BBC show in America. I tried Google Translate and Babel Translate, it gives me the following error:

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I guess we can still watch such videos by converting them.. convertube.com will allow to convert youtube video in other formats.

Didn’t knew Youtube is offering this feature to its members . Thanks for the bypass trick :D

Interesting Amit..Recently China lifted ban from You Tube..Now You Tube itself using filters

This must be Warner Brother Records fighting piracy and terrorism!

What really pisses me off, is the fact that the video that made me aware of this, was on the front page. If they have defy logic and restrict MUSIC VIDEOS to certain regions, they could at least NOT advertise those videos outside the regions they can actually be viewed in…

“Because of the way that the BBC is funded in the UK through the licence fee, we cannot make videos available outside of the UK”

- Oh, they simply cannot? How about you make those videos available… for free? Like… everything else on YouTube? Huh? BBC?

Are they saying that it actually costs them MONEY to get viewed by IP’s outside of the UK? If not, what exactly were they trying to say behind that legaleese…?

A way to get around this is to replace the “watch?v=” part of a url to just “/v/”.

It should look like this : link

try torproject.org, its about online anonymity but im still trying it out. If it works for anyone let me know

Despite your saying: IT *IS* CENSORSHIP!

This is a load of crap – really! If a company is offering and licencing its product in America, it does not lose by allowing for instance people in India to view it. It’s just commercial greed and stupidy – they only want to offer the music video in places where there is a chance people will buy the album. The whole point in youtube is because it is relatively low-quality, it cannot substitute the “real thing”, but gives people the freedom to view, create or share any and all video/music content. And I think it’s not forbidden to stick adverts on youtube video’s is it? (Such as a “sponsored by” slogan).. Any serious surfer who wants to get around such youtube crap can use a proxy..

I suppose one has to understand why youtube offers such a ‘feature’. They’ve got all sorts of “copyright owners” breathing down their backs and don’t want to be viewed negativelly in the media and political circles. They don’t want to be dropped in the same bag as P2P networks and bittorent. I mean I think youtube is a trans-global cultural phenomenon..(just as the internet is) and if the politicians and LABELS and show-biz people understood this they might reduce the censorship.

— It’s not piracy – the C: should be free for all!

@Manpreet Singh
The BBC charge every UK household a TV licence fee.
If you own or even rent a TV in the UK you MUST pay this fee.
This money goes towards the BBC being totally free of commercials and funds programming for TV and radio (also totally commercial free).

Please tell me why non UK residents should be alowed access to this for no cost when it is programming made for and paid for by UK residents.

This is absolutely preposterous, this has never been a problem before now. All it means is that we’re all going to have to go through a proxy in the respective country. This is as stupid a blunder as ISP’s blocking bittorrent traffic so it forces everyone to encrypt their data. Making the internet an even bigger mess. I for one have to say up yours youtube and all the corperations that now clearly control you.

@=8)-DX If I lived in the UK and didn’t own a TV, I’d still get to watch the BBC online while everyone else paid.

Why not people overseas? It’s only short clips, and there is revenue being made from YouTube banner ads, some of which goes to the BBC.

Most of Youtube audience lives in a world of their own. The free world.
Nothing is free. Making a video is not free. Youtube is not free. They haven’t created the service for you to enjoy. The service is there to bring them money.
A video clip production is not free. The copyright owners can do whatever they want with that content. Including restricting your curious eye from viewing it.
“Are they saying that it actually costs them MONEY to get viewed by IP’s outside of the UK?”
Absolutely. Let’s say that you create a video and broadcast it in your country. The video loses value if the broadcasting is actually worldwide. Who will give you MONEY when you try to sell it in another country? This is a simplistic way of looking at the issue, but I think you get my point.
The INTERNET IS NOT FREE.

While I agree that it sucks when Youtube is blocked in foreign countries, thats how I found this page, I do agree that many third world countries entire economies (many in Asia) are based on theft. I used to be liberal and think that these countries were just poor. I have since waken up and smelled the burnt rice, I realize certain nations people are bred to simply get away with anything and everything they can, they act all innocent but are nothing but thieves and so accustomed to robbery and deceit of all types on such a massive scale that it holds back the whole of humanity from ever making anything of themselves.

Wow… Jack… you are all class… Lets take Asia as a good example – every country works on a principal of trade of “how can I get the best deal”

naturally…

Companies who attempt to enforce overseas intellectual property are no different.

The problem is this: Western society is so xenophobic we would never want to listen to a Chinese indie band or watch a Korean TV series, yet these people are happy to watch american TV and/or UK TV…

Have a quick think about how the media protrays foreign television – name a Japanese TV show – oh yeah – one of those ones that all these people do stupid stuff… that’s right… If you’d ever been to Japan you’d realise there is a hell of a lot more to Japanese TV than that.

now…

Do you think this is on purpose perhaps? Maybe to protect western exports to asia but not to spend money (and bargining power) in asia?

The last piracy investigation in China (it’s a few years since I looked at the figures so apologies if I’m wrong – and there has been one since which showed a drop) showed that 92% of software/music/film was pirated… booo you say, well if 92% is pirated – this is (somewhat obviously) indicative of a wider problem – the pirate market in China is the REAL market – because the only way to get hold of the “real” product is to buy from the west at hugely inflated prices due to our own greed.

So please don’t be so fucking racist when you plainly don’t have a clue.

my favourite quote though was

“I realize certain nations people are bred to simply get away with anything and everything they can, they act all innocent but are nothing but thieves and so accustomed to robbery and deceit of all types on such a massive scale that it holds back the whole of humanity from ever making anything of themselves.”

Wow… you really have shown how increadbly ignorant you truely are…

Sorry for the rant – I hate racists.

Ewan

and I apologise about not saying anything about youtube – I do wonder if the reduced quality should maybe give youtube a license to broadcast worldwide – I pay a UK BBC TV license – and frankly I don’t care if the world sees the television I pay for because frankly apart from some documentaries and the news the BBC is shit.

I really don’t mind ad revenue paying for my television – if it gets me better programming.

In reply to =8)-DX – We pay a monthly fee to our satellite provider in order to receive BBC, however, it’s BBC Two and NOT commercial free. Many of the shows BBC has on its youtube video list are available on BBC Two with plenty of commercials interrupting every few minutes so I don’t understand what the fuss is all about. If we’re already paying for the privilege of receiving commercial ridden shows on BBC Two then we shouldn’t have to put up with blocked video clips from those same commercial ridden shows on youtube.

I wonder why the users would do this. In my case, there are two videos that I have in my playlists that I can’t watch. I used to be able to watch them, but suddenly they’re unavailable in my country. And I don’t even think that the users who uploaded them are the actual copyright holders, so why would they be concerned about restricting materials based on where you happen to live?

And furthermore, several other videos with the same band, uploaded either by them or their record label, are available to me. Why would some of their videos be restricted and not all of them? It makes no sense.

It also makes no sense whatsoever to punish people just because they happen to live in the “wrong” country. This is not what I would ever have expected from the Internet. (Key part of the word is “inter”… short for “international”. Hm.)

this isnt only happening with copyright material. i watched a video shot with a cellphone about a year ago. tried watching it again and its says ‘not available in your country’. most of the time videos say sorry, video no longer available. a few weeks ago i would refresh the page a few times and that would sort it out but now that doesnt work at all. i live in south africa by the way: we dont have any internet censorship..

youtube is starting to piss me off!

@Bob
Because the BBC takes our license fee, pisses it down a wall, laughs and then gives us Casuallty.

I cant see videos from my favourite list now…
Blocking certain areas from free videos is just the stupidest thing i have seen. We are part of the EU, NATO, etc, on what reason do they block us from internet?????
This is bullsh|t, i am highly offended.

“replace the /watch?v= part with /v”

This doesn’t work is embedding is disabled for the video.

The so called new-world of freedom in which we live it is just the biggest lie of all times.
This ” IS ” censorship and manipulation of the information so you will see only what you are allow to see.
Doesn’t matter if you don’t want to face it, but we are nothing but slaves of tyranny in a world that’s has never before meet the definition of slavery so well as it has nowadays.
If you don’t believe me just wait for a few more months and be witness of what will occur in the whole world with the Economic crisis… Slavery will be grasp for mankind in a way that has not been seen before.

So it has come to this. Totalitarian Censorship is right around the corner, if not here already.

So record companies think that i’ll sheepishly go buy a CD of a music group from 70’s, just because they don’t let me watch a video of them. How am i supposed to know about them if i don’t have any access to their material?

I am a potential customer, and they are pushing me away. Besides, they are showing me banner-ads and stuff like that everytime i watch a video. They already profit from me.

I live in the UK but was blocked from viewing a music video by English band Gene! How is ludicrous is that?

As for those who attempted to draw parallels to this and a TV license, we do pay – it’s called an internet provider subscription.

“Please tell me why non UK residents should be alowed access to this for no cost when it is programming made for and paid for by UK residents.”

Well I’m hungarian and my cable company provides me several BBC programmes which I obviously pay for. So why can’t I watch them on Youtube? :)

“Well I’m hungarian and my cable company provides me several BBC programmes which I obviously pay for. So why can’t I watch them on Youtube? :)”

I’m assuming you choose to pay for your specific brand cable…In the UK we do not have such a choice, if you want to watch any type of television in the UK, you have to pay for a subscription to the BBC …It’s called a television license!

Therefore why should my money which funds these programmes be able to be viewed by non paying foreigners?

“Therefore why should my money which funds these programmes be able to be viewed by non paying foreigners?”

Because in return the programmes they pay for will be viewable by us.

It’s people like you who are causing all this trouble. “Oh i pay for this so you can have it!” It’s a total selfish attitude and it’s not going to get anyone anywhere.

The internet is a load of shit these days. 10+ years ago it was an amazing tool. You could find anything with ease, there were little restrictions. These days you cant even view your favorite band’s video because their label is based in another country. Have i not paid my dues by buying their records, goin to their gigs?

I’m sick of big brother thinkin they know whats best while they secretly screw us over. Fuck the governtment, fuck youtube, and fuck all the other selfish, money hungry idiots in this world. Sooner they are gone the better this place will be for all of us!

hey… I use tor to access some videos.. i live in germany and a lot af music videos are blocked… but now with tor using a server from another country.. (but ive fould out trhat a lot of videos are also blocked in hong kong and swizerland.. at the moment im using a proxy from korea)

Bah! I used to think that I am receiving this “not available in your country” message just because of sanctions imposed on us (as we are used to see such messages along with the Access Denied pages caused by governmental censorship every day)! Now I see it’s another story itself!

Well .. thanks to whoever it was, that suggested “http://convertube.com/”.. and yes as somone said – the trick with /v etc don’t always work you get this msg:
“This doesn’t work is embedding is disabled for the video.”
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Well gg, youtube.. I’m off to using Video.google.com to find movies since the movies there I can at least see. Not 1/10 chance of suddenly ending up into a “not available in your country” bull@$#@ – Thank you so much “youtube” that also screwed my favourite list now that some videos can’t be watched.

But don’t give up fellash, always way to bypass (or how you write it) and really – their only blocking your IP-adress sorta, it can’t be that hard to bypass that kind of stuff.. or can it? ;)

This idea of sharing information….where did it go?
How funny, Google had to be sanctioned for publishing belgian newspapers without their permission and when it comes to youtube they empower the user to decide who sees it and who doesn’t. It’s interesting to see how Google protects certain “intelectual property” and other….they just don’t care.

In my humble opinion the web is the world (i think that’s what the www are for: world wide web and not ukww or usww)

As from Holland I don’t mind people seeing programs “I” payed my share for. And boy, do we pay.

We do not have a TV in our house, we buy DVD’s and watch legimate content online. Works fine for us. Still we are charged every month for the TV signal we do not use. The cable provider/ISP does not offer a subscription scheme for cable internet without TV and without telephone and it is still impossible to get another cableprovider/ISP. So basically we pay about 20 Euro a month for things we do not use nor want. A part of this TV money goes to the licenced broadcast companies (including companies abroad) and we are fine with that. Watching content online should be payed for. No free lunch.

Then there is this. A part of the income tax in Holland goes directly to the radio and TV studio’s. Thats about 150 Euro a year per household. A part of this money is spent on licensing programs from abroad. Besides this tax there are governmental funding schemes for broadcast companies that don’t have enough cash to make programs and broadcast.

Then we all pay fees for every single megabyte in a harddisk or writeable DVD because people might use it to store MP3’s and movies. And there are a few obscure clubs that charge “companies” (including i.e. independent painters, copy writers, house barbers and freelance ICT consultants) for the simple fact of having a radio or means to listen to a radio during work. One might hear a song, oh dear. Even orchestras and choirs are charged because they might use copyrighted material while rehersing. Last but not least, companies are charged for having copiers and printers, people may copy or print copyrighted material, you know.

We pay, pay, pay and pay again. Fine. Yet, those huge companies who deliberately make loads of money with several obscure schemes and backed by law try to convince everybody how poor and mistreated they are by their nasty customers a.k.a. pirates and tell us how they must protect themselves by preventing programs to be ‘broadcast’ elsewhere.

It’s a nasty development. ISP’s and broadcast companies are slowly merging into huge multimedia providers. Maybe there comes a time you actually pay a fee for everything you watch or listen too. That would be fine, but I am affraid by then we all still have to pay our numerous taxes and fees.