Comments on: YouTube adds full-length television shows

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:46:10 +0000

I have no idea why they won’t allow it to stream in Canada, we get most, if not all of their TV channels on regular cable. It is really unfair but there is ways around it, I used a hotspot blocker a while ago to watch stuff on Hulu, but it was really slow. Hopefully the USA will realize that they can gain more with letting other countries view their videos!

By: grapes

grapes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:11:35 +0000

Well, we all know the Americans are only interested in themselves, not the rest of the world.

Youtube is useless if you live anywhere other than USA!!

By: YOUTUBBER

YOUTUBBER — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:43:11 +0000

“This video is not available in your country.” SUCKS

By: Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:09 +0000

I wonder if the only rights that YouTube wanted, and thus the only ones that they bought, were U.S rights? Or, conversely, if that was all that CBS was willing to sell? Or, on the gripping hand, whether CBS has sold foreign rights to other parties and thus cannot grant those rights to YouTube?

One had to wonder….

By: Greg Conquest

Greg Conquest — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:52:10 +0000

Me as well. The link is not available in Japan.

By: Emlyn

Emlyn — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:45:51 +0000

I can’t access it either, from Australia:

“This video is not available in your country.”

By: Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:30:26 +0000

tubular -

Some of the content is already up. See the link in a previous comment..

By: Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:29:22 +0000

Michael Vaugn -

I absolutely agree that the situation is a little bizarre. I knew there were difficulties, but did not know that it was this large a problem. Is anyone else unable to access this YouTube page?

By: Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:21:11 +0000

In reply to Spectreman’s post about streaming outside the US, I’m in Australia, and I can’t even view the video linked to by Michael W. Jones. It says it’s not available in my country. Congratulations, content providers, you’ve just fucked yourselves over in the rest of the world AGAIN! =D

Just over a year ago, and this is the cause of the new gimmick in Australian television where they claim shows are “streamed directly from the US” or “fast tracked”, a study showed that Australia, with our comparatively puny population of 20 million, was responsible for more than 30% of the world’s television and movie piracy. The cause was quickly discovered to be that we were at least a year behind on everything. I don’t see how American television networks excluding other countries is going to help them at all. Piracy is just a much better option – I’d certainly rather download Star Trek than stream it.

By: Anaa Bolortes

Anaa Bolortes — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:50:00 +0000

Very good move from youtube.
It appears to me that they seem to notice that people want their favorite shows from TV very badly.