Just for the record, Daily Show clips on the Comedy Central website do not play in Canada because in Canada the broadcast rights for the Daily Show are owned by Comedy Network, a Canadian cable channel. Part of the deal between the two networks is that the Comedy Central website does a location check on requests for video and refuses to play if the request originates at a Canadian IP address. Sometimes this is accompanied by a link to the Comedy Network website, but it’s never to the video of the specific clip. The clip can always be seen in Canada, it’s just a bunch of work to identify which clip it is, and then locate it on the Comedy Network website.
I would presume the issue for non-Americans in other locations that can’t see the clip is similar, and that non-Americans that can see the clip don’t have a local entity with Daily Show broadcast rights.
Is there a technological reason for this, or do the two companies just refuse/are too lazy to cooperate? I guarantee I’d give Comedy Network more page views if I felt I’d actually be able to see what I was linked to in the first place. Drives me crazy.