YouTube Video Not Available in Your Country?

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Owning two accounts on youtube, I sometimes need to access videos on the account I seem to have lost the password to, which I cannot login, due to the fact that it was created on the same e-mail account. I sometimes want to post those videos on various websites and/or message boards. I use soundtracks on my videos. And some of them are restricted banned to other countries (- all hail discrimination based on the country you live in -) other than the US. After a google search of how you can watch youtube videos that are blocked in your country, this is the most useful one I could find *

Are you a non US citizen who wants to view a youtube video but you are getting a message YouTube Video Not Available in Your Country ? this is something which people are seeing more and more as earlier only music companies were blocking some countries but now news channels and other youtube partners too have started blocking non US countries resulting more and more people seeing this message

“This video contains content from Fox, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.” (Instead of fox, it can be BBC, CBS, NBC, Sony, Universal, BMG)

So here are some tips to watch Blocked Videos on YouTube

1. You can watch the youtube video by changing its url and viewing it in full screen, for example instead of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx you can make it http://www.youtube.com/v/xxxxxxxxxxx and can watch the video (it seems the following technique is not working anymore but you can try)

2. You can start using Tor software – http://www.torproject.org/, using which you can change your IP to US based ips. Tor also has some really handy firefox addons like Torbutton and foxtor

3. If you have a good download speed, you can also download the video onto your computer and then watch it, a service like keepvid is perfect to download youtube videos.

4. There are lot of youtube proxies using which you can watch videos through the proxy and as most proxies are hosted in US, watching blocked videos shoudn’t be that difficult. You can find lot of youtube proxies on mwolk, unfortunately lot of proxy owners fill the categories wrongly but I know in the list, there are many who support youtube, please use search to find such sites.

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#1 DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE ACK!!!

#2 in that blog post does not work for FireFox 4 and higher.

#3 >> keepvid (or any of the download sites and/ or programs DO NOT WORK for videos blocked in your country. )

#4 – I have not tested proxi sites, but I think it would be annoying to wait 30 minutes for a 3 minutes and a half video. If you do not mind the video loading slowly, I’d suggest proxi’s like hidemyass.com or something similar. A WEB PROXY SLOWS DOWN PAGE LOADING so if you are not the patient type, I suggest giving up.

THE CONCLUSION IS 

Forget the fact that you aren’t in the US and you really want to see that video. Youtube doesn’t give a flying fuck about it. So you can just eat shit and die for all they care.

… and people wonder why PIRACY is so well-spread.