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I searched for a song today via google just to realize that “I’m no US inhabitant”, which makes me even unable to play just a god damn song preview.
Since when is the Internet localized? Isn’t it’s purpose to connect people all over the world? But instead of following this concept, some famous websites (for example YouTube) have to limit their contents (due to licensing agreements). This is bullshit. I can understand some companies not wanting everyone to watch their series but why do they upload them in the first place? Any US Inhabitant can simply rip and upload to any other website. Or non-US-Inhabitants use a proxy server.
So this localization does and has never worked. All it provides is making people angry. Especially if they need to click through different pages just to find out “they are not allowed” to watch what they wanted.
Here is an example: First, it needs flash enabled to work. Then it needs your popupblocker to be turned off just to tell you “sorry dude, your not from the US, so fuck you”.
yeah, this really sucks! Hopefully we dont turn into a kind of china…
I agree, it is FUCKING ANNOYING!
yeah it really sucks. I couldn’t watch my new band’s video premiere because of that. but some people in germany , austria, australia … could watch it … wtf
Yeah, fuck it you tube! i wanted to watch the FREE webisodes on youtube when it says: You have no access to this video… but tried with a proxy server and it works…
Licensing agreements. Corporations force websites to limit their content to certain countries. Also, websites sometimes do not get advertising revenue for visitors outside agreed countries, so do not provide the service to them.
Don’t blame the websites.
I don’t do the websites, I especially blame the companies limiting the website.
But I must agree, that this point doesn’t get so clear from the post.
yep… i really hate it too… i can’t watch GERMAN music videos in germany just because the GEMA wanted too much money from youtube…
What proxy servers do you guys use?
this makes me think of adding an proxy on the new server, because that is something i hate the most…
I doubt this helps: Isn’t our server located in Europa?
If you want to know bad, look at china.
That’s an extreme form of localization right there.
I believe that each continent has its main server and then “sub-servers” for each country. So for example you released a video in Germany on youtube, and it had content that only Germany was allowed to see. You would get the “You’re not a German citizen fuck off” message