Help me see this youtube video in Canada.

November 23, 2009 11:43 AM

The youtube video in this FPP is not available in my country (Canada) due to copyright restrictions. I've watched it before and would like to watch it again. Can someone either point me to it somewhere else online where it might work (maybe on youtube at another account), or at least tell me the proper title or some info I can use to search myself? Thanks.
posted by If only I had a penguin... to MetaFilter-Related at 11:43 AM (12 comments total)

I can't get it either but I think this is it.
posted by Mike Buechel at 11:54 AM on November 23, 2009

Yep. Here's an another non-youtube link.
posted by gubo at 12:01 PM on November 23, 2009

Thank you.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 12:06 PM on November 23, 2009

Yup, just what Canada needed.
posted by philip-random at 2:15 PM on November 23, 2009

This is why I wish youtube links had human-readable URL's, that way I could google up another source when the video is blocked which seems to happen to anything I come by quite often lately.
posted by dabitch at 3:27 PM on November 23, 2009

Thank you Gubo. Your link has a very nice summary of the video, and it saved my eyes from having to watch it.
posted by SLC Mom at 8:11 PM on November 23, 2009

I think that any post in which a primary link is not available globally should be deleted.

I suggested this on a recent occasion when there was a FPP of an American-only video link and had my comment deleted for my trouble. So clearly my view is not shared by the powers that be.

But nonetheless: copyright restrictions on video viewing are no different than posting links that are behind password protection or paywalls and in no way do these constitute "best of the web".
posted by Rumple at 11:53 PM on November 23, 2009 [1 favorite]

I think that any post in which a primary link is not available globally should be deleted.

So, we're limited to the dozen or so sites that exist beyond China's Great Firewall?
posted by philip-random at 12:07 AM on November 24, 2009

Yes.

This said, I have, on occasion seen posts where the music linked to was not available in the US and I couldn't watch some BBC TV show clips once, so I do understand the frustration.
posted by cjorgensen at 4:37 AM on November 24, 2009

I think any post to content that is not available in the US should be deleted. It's an American website. And I'm writing as a Briton.
posted by alasdair at 9:49 AM on November 24, 2009

I think any post to content that is not available in the US should be deleted

Oh, it would be.

It's an American website.

It's an international membership and community.
posted by Rumple at 10:54 AM on November 24, 2009 [1 favorite]

I'm in the US (Indiana IS still in the US, right?) and I'm getting the "Not available in your country" message, too. WTF???
posted by Thorzdad at 5:32 AM on November 25, 2009