...content not available in your country.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@saoirse

Yeah, but we’re Americans, dammit!

That currency is also devaluing.

[palacheck]

I’ve gotten this message from time to time when trying to access European web content.

Thankfully America manages to produce a staggering amount of crap to shove in my brain–so the need to watch content from the outside world rarely becomes a problem.

[Sunspace]

@mnemosyne

When people link to segments of the Daily Show or Colbert Report, Canadians get a nice friendly message saying that the content is available on the Comedy Network, complete with link. What drives me crazy, though, is that the link doesn’t go to the same content but rather the Comedy Network homepage. Not helpful.

:: nods ::

I reported this behaviour as a bug months ago. The link was off the Huffington Post Canada site as well. You’d think they at least would know better, but nooooo…

[Smeghead]

@Way Too Happy

I am so fucking angry. I don’t know how many individuals contributed to the conclusion that I didn’t need to see it, but it would give me great pleasure to watch them all diaf. Goddam.

Dude. There’s more to life.

[Wendell_Wagner]

Way Too Happy writes:

> “Not available” in my country? What the fuck - did the DEA discover it had
> recreational potential?

First, let’s get one thing straight. When a video on YouTube or a similar website isn’t available in the U.S., it has nothing to do with the U.S. government banning it from being seen within the U.S. I assume that the same is true in other countries. The right to show a video is held by the company (nearly always a big company) who owns the copyright to it. When a video on YouTube or whatever displays the statement, “This video is not available within your country”, it means that the big company that owns the video has sent a cease-and-desist letter to YouTube saying, “We own the copyright to such-and-such video within the following countries (followed by a list of those countries). You will fix your software so that people within those countries can’t see the video. If you fail to do so, we will sue you.”

[septimus]

@Wendell_Wagner

When a video on YouTube or whatever displays the statement, “This video is not available within your country”, it means that the big company that owns the video has sent a cease-and-desist letter to YouTube saying, "We own the copyright to such-and-such video within the following countries …

Are you sure? My impression is that when Youtube takes down a video for copyright infringement, it takes it down completely(*), not selectively by country. I’ve sent desist notices to Google (though not Youtube) for infringements against my own copyrighted material; the form does not ask for any list of countries.

I think the message in question comes from the copyrighter’s own site. I get it when my sister sends me links to Saturday Night Live skits. (Sometimes I can see the same skit on Youtube if NBC hasn’t notified Youtube of infringement yet. )

Thai government may forbid certain sites, but very very few AFAICT.

These days I get You don’t have permission to access “http://www.rollingstone.com/” on this server. I’ve noticed this only for Rolling Stone (which I can still get to via proxy server); I’ve no idea if the Thai government has censored Rolling Stone or what.

( * - ETA: IIRC, there may also be some password-protection option on Youtube, but it has no direct relation to the issue of copyright infringement.)