I think this is a good idea, but there might be a few more technical hurdles than are obvious. I know that trying to access YouTube videos through an American proxy doesn't always (or maybe ever) work: I get told they're blocked in Germany, even when in the same session I can go to Hulu or NBC.com or whatever. I bet Google has a LOT of ways of knowing where you are, and the IP address is just one of them.
(On the other hand, it's feasible that they follow a sort of "one-drop" test of blocked content. If any part of your profile looks like it's in Germany, they'll block you.) Maybe it's worthwhile to do some field testing about what gets through YouTube's region blocking and what doesn't, a la the earlier testing by Scott Smitelli about their content ID system? http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/ Parker On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < [email protected]> wrote: > That reminds me of the China Channel Firefox add-on by FATlab: > http://www.artzilla.org/add-ons/china-channel/ > > What about a similar browser addon "GEMAtube" to raise awareness? > If out of Germany it uses a German proxy so others can see the issue. > If in Germany it proxies YouTube so you can see all videos. > > China Channel was open sourced but their site seems to be down. If anyone > can program extensions, they probably still have the code. > > > On Sun, July 24, 2011 16:06, Parker Higgins wrote: > > It looks like the film has been back up for a few days, which is nice. As > > far as I know, she doesn't know why -- somebody must have heard her > > complaint and silently flipped the switch back. Anyway, I can vouch for > > GEMA > > being totally awful. Very many videos have that same notice, and it's > > seemingly only a problem in Germany. Videos that seem to completely > > innocuously have music in the background are not visible here, and > there's > > no way for people outside of Germany to see what will make it through. > > > > It's a little bit of a first world problem to complain that certain > videos > > aren't available here, but occasionally it's a real issue. Collecting > > societies are real jerks almost all the time, but I think GEMA takes the > > cake. And Nina's video is a great response! > > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Deutschland, > > Parker > > -- parker higgins berlin, germany http://parkerhiggins.net gmail / gchat: [email protected] twitter / identi.ca: @thisisparker skype: thisisparker please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a proprietary platform
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