YouTube is sorry “this video is no longer available.”
YouTube for most parts of the world is the magical mirror on the web. You tell it what you want, and it will show it. I stopped downloading clips to my computer but in rare cases, cause they are all on the net ready for quick streaming anytime/anywhere.
Recently however, this message started showing gradually more often:
At first, I would go to the top left, click on Worldwide -> Worldwide (All Regions) and it would work. It would solve it, it’s a bit annoying, and it would make embedded videos mostly useless but as links to original video url. Now, even that Worldwide option is not working, and more and more videos are being blocked. And I’m not talking about offensive content, or even debatable content. Regular trailers, video game music play, such as the one above, and many such similar things. If those videos are banned for all regions, then why am I able to see them using a proxy? Because those videos are only not availale in Kuwait, and I’m not sure on what basis and on who’s request are those videos being blocked. Is MOC hiring full time employees just randomly picking videos to be banned! This is seriously making YouTube non-usable, or else so annoying to use. Another thing is, why wouldn’t YouTube be clear with their message “This video is no longer available in your area”. Their message is kind of decieving.
People who were not aware of it, anoter big video streaming site, VEOH has also blocked all Kuwait traffic as well.
My first guess was, maybe it’s porn flooded video site, but the main page shows nothing more than youTube does, perhaps even less offensive in some cases. Does it have porn videos? I would bet yes, same as all other video sites. But it’s also a great place for video games videos. Why would the site stop all traffic from Kuwait, and not even response to my inquiry about it. They probably got sick from us they don’t even care anymore. Does MOC have that strong influence? Why wouldn’t MOC just block it through our ISPs then?
Beware China, here we come.
UPDATE: As some people suggested in the comments, the YouTube problem does seem to be related to Qnet only. Problem seems to be cleared now. Let’s hope.
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I get it too, just refresh the page dozens of times until it starts loading… and since it does load after a few refresh hits, its most likely that qualitynet is behind this. Plus it doesn’t happen with other ISPs for some reason.
Yes, so far I’ve only seen this with Qualitynet and my guess is that it’s because of their transparent proxy cache.
If you sniff the traffic with Wireshark, you’ll see that the Youtube server responds with a 403 Forbidden when you try to get the video. I’m still not sure why this is happening.
Hamad: Is it? For me, it never worked.
3baid: My family use Fasttelco and they do complain about it.
Bojacob: Geek. That’s some good analysis. You should write more about those stuff in your blog :)
I agree with whoever said that its more of a connection problem than actual blocking, I do get the videos to load after a few dozen refreshes as well. most of the times its because cache.googlevideo.com is not reachable, whenever I am able to ping it; I would be able to get most videos to work.
I would also like to state again that: MOC sucks.
Ali: Thanks for the clarification. Especially that last note. Maybe I will automate appending it to your comments :)
Then again, it won’t feel as good as when you say it.
This problem is due to new MOC roles in Kuwait to block some videos inside youtube, and its not the ISP’s problems, and you can see this news in the newspapers, MOC originally request to block all youtube, then they desided to block some the content not all of it.
And you never know may be they will block it all.
netmanb2k: Actually, this turned out to be a separate issue related to Qnet and was fixed. It’s only a coincidence to happen almost same time as the YouTube chaos. If MOC is really blocking such normal videos selectively, it actually makes matter worse.
Easy fix, for all windows vers. In internet explorer go into Tools/Internet Options/Connections Tab/Lan Setting. Once in Lan Settings, uncheck all boxes. ALL youtube videos will load now.
Pass it on.
i read in one of the blogs that its because of quality net, they have a prob with streaming …
i forgot what blog
but when you copy paste the link in a new window it opens. its not blocked .. try to copy paste the link in a new window .. works for me