April 18, 2008
Watch Restricted YouTube Videos
An option for watching "available to US viewers only" videos on YouTube - though on a personal level, it's never been YouTube that has slowed me down, but the networks, hulu.com (which yay, is going to do something about it), amazon and iTunes. Also, my guess is as this gets arounds, YouTube will simply change their code.
According to Unofficial News and Tips about Google via Lifehacker, an increasing number of YouTube videos are restricted to a limited number of countries, probably because the company that uploaded them doesn't have global distribution rights or because it wants to use different marketing strategies in other countries.
Even if YouTube says that "this video is not available in your country", you can actually see it using a very simple trick: replace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID WITH http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID (VIDEOID is the 11-characters video identifier).
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