If you noticed that you can't watch a certain video on YouTube, they'll tell you not only of its "ownership" but also that it's blocked in this country or whatever, I viewed the copyright info of videos I uploaded and sometimes it's blocked everywhere except for the uploader themselves. To me that's just NO fun, how are you gonna be expected to enjoy what I watch and you can't see it? It's not fair. There's other places you can see the video I posted I just felt like I felt, well if the original "Transit Ostend" documentary can be seen in YouTube, surely, the 2001 documentary of it, or whatever year it was, can be seen by everybody but I guess not.

I'm not mad or sad or anything, it's just that well you win some, you lose some.

Timmy84 said:

Sometimes, this could have happened by accident due to the uploader not being tech savy with settings. The owner of the video, just uploads it and that's it. He does not bother to check the settings of his account.

Yeah I know and that's what I was doing until today. When someone at another board said they couldn't see my "Remember Marvin Gaye" videos because the copyright owner had basically blocked it from a lot of countries, I had to check and sure enough, a lot of the videos where it was blocked, it was blocked off most countries. That's when I just said "fuck it".

Anyway, I got a new channel, I just sent you a friend invite, trini, I'll send an orgnote.

Timmy84 said:

I got it. I will "subscribe" to it tonight, when I get home. Can't fool around too much at work

shorttrini said:

I gotcha.

Timmy84 said:

Its another BIG DEAL like the Apple itunes issue with not being able to access an itunes store in another country, that YouTube thing has been happening alot to me lately

lastdecember said:

Yeah I know. It's getting ridiculous. It's almost to the point I have to find rare shit to not see that bullshit. I'm lucky to get two in my new account! Tried to upload from Marva Whitney and Yvonne Fair, shit said "it's blocked in the U.S." I was like "aw hell naw!"

Timmy84 said:

I wonder if it has to do with copyright laws and licensing?

Timmy84 said:

Its weird i know, i was trying to get something from an artist based here and was getting that constantly, i remember trying to get some Mariah Carey behind the scenes clip and got that reading and a few other strange things u wouldnt think to see it for

shorttrini said:

I don't think it has to do with nothing. Ever since YouTube became corporate, the only thing you can upload is YouTube Poop or ten-minute videos of you doing absolutely nothing.

lastdecember said:

See so it don't just happen with "copyrighted" music.

Timmy84 said:

No i dont think its that, because most of the things i was looking for that got that reading came from artists that i cant see having "copyright" issues, but then again, stranger things have happend

lastdecember said:

I see.

Timmy84 said:

thats very true, YouTube has become the place to post weird shit that your pets do, or concert footage shot by someone on their phone and i have TO HEAR THEM SING THE SONG, and they always cant sing, or the person who cant stay still with a camera.

lastdecember said:

Exactly.

Timmy84 said:

i was watching some a-ha tour footage from the shows in South America last month, and constantly it was posted by a person who had to sing along every single word with their horrible off key voice, damn if i wanted to hear joe schmo sing a-ha off key i would ask for it.

lastdecember said:

I've seen them do it in a variety of concerts by artists I admire. I can't even watch 'em anymore.

Can't you just get around this by using an anonymous proxy browser thingy? I used to do that to watch stuff on Showtime's website (it's blocked to the UK)...

AshK said:

I probably could... I would think if everyone used proxies, then they can see videos but that's not entirely fair to me.

Most of us here know WEA has blocked pretty much everything they own (including Atlantic and Electra artists as they were assosiated with WB). So if you personally upload any major act on those labels, odds are heavinly against you.

More recently it also seems sony is blocking alot of shit as well. Not taking stuff down as much as blocking new users from uploading their artists.

Iam not sure how it is done? I think it is word sensitive. If you upload a major artist and say who it is in your title, your screwed (with WB and sometimes Sony it seems). BUT, as it does seem word sensitive, you might be able to upload a really obscure WEA artist as they havn't got around to blocking that person/group yet, if thast makes any sense?

Thats just a guess though.

thesexofit said:

I know what you mean, I was just checking my timmy841212 account and I got at least one strike for posting MJ's "Love Never Felt So Good". Sony took it down before I could. So far that's the only one.

Timmy84 said:

And yet thats been uploaded by others on youtube for ages now LOL. So it seems Sony has started being a bitch about this as well.

thesexofit said:

That's why I just said "fuck 'em". I don't think Universal would do much but have it blocked in some parts.

I have quite of few videos on my external HDD that have been blocked. Whatever. What I find kinda amusing over half of my videos have been jazz music, nobodies really listening to jazz these days. The music industry is trying to hold on (I guess) to some semblance of control of how music heard.

They need to create some software for Youtube members were we can run titles of an artist/song through sometype of systems check, to know what can be uploaded and what can't.

Timmy84 said:

Really? I just don't see the logic in blocking old songs/videos that would otherwise might be never seen or heard? I understand for new stuff, but old stuff? Why? LOL. Very annoying.

thesexofit said:

Because they don't want the user to express themselves. I'm thinking of uploading videos on Dailymotion and other videos. YouTube's got on my nerves lately.

Timmy84 said:

You mean "they" as in the record companies? Because I presume youtube themselves have to comply with them?

thesexofit said:

Yeah the record companies. I still think YouTube being with Google is what led to labels getting involved. It was doing alright way before that happened.
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Timmy84 said:

LOL in general anything that was at first original and new and fresh etc.. gets worse and worse once the media and businesses in general comes in. Same with any "art" unfortunately it seems.

thesexofit said:

Very unfortunately.