On 2/3/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> And Google said:
> > Thanks for your interest in Google Video.
> >
> > Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in
> > your country.
>
> 'COUNTRY'??? What??
>
> > We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future,
> > and we really appreciate your patience.
>
> My patience? What do they mean?
That's really weird. While Google Video gives publishers the option to
restrict viewer countries, I of course did not elect to use it. I
would suggest you complain to them. I am all for you and anyone else
anywhere having access.
Another option - perhaps there is a way for you to lie to Google about
where you are, or run it through a US-based proxy?
> Is this a joke?? My definition of cyberspace strictly lacks a notion
> of 'country'. (Yes, I know I'm obstinate.) And I think the world
> does not need anyone (not even Google) to program a mapping of IP
> addresses to countries.
*cough* Have you heard that google did consent to Chinese censorship
as a condition of operating therein?
> This is just ridiculous. And this is what makes me stop using
> services.
>
> (Hopefully it's just broken web design (too much of this exists, too),
> but how on earth does a broken web design produce the above text?)
FWIW though I'll try to reencode the video into divx and upload it to
archive.org, which I'm pretty sure cares not where you come from.
- Sai