I am presently in New Zealand, and when I try to view in firefox or download with youtube-dl, some a Capella music, half the time I get a message from Google saying SME (Sony Music Entertainment) has blocked this track in my country. Surely solving the ready-access to censored content problem would be a good start for our freedom lovin' community?
Example a capella failures to download: $ youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toga5cWRi0k&list=PLBCnvBvQEJRpdirUvR1CKLMhESI7whlWM' -i [youtube:playlist] Downloading playlist PLBCnvBvQEJRpdirUvR1CKLMhESI7whlWM - add --no-playlist to just download video Toga5cWRi0k [youtube:playlist] PLBCnvBvQEJRpdirUvR1CKLMhESI7whlWM: Downloading webpage [download] Downloading playlist: Top Tracks for Street Corner Symphony [youtube:playlist] playlist Top Tracks for Street Corner Symphony: Collected 13 video ids (downloading 13 of them) [download] Downloading video 1 of 13 [youtube] Toga5cWRi0k: Downloading webpage [youtube] Toga5cWRi0k: Extracting video information [youtube] Toga5cWRi0k: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Street Corner Symphony - Hallelujah (Live)-Toga5cWRi0k.mp4 has already been downloaded [download] 100% of 80.02MiB [download] Downloading video 2 of 13 [youtube] EZYN2o1tsIA: Downloading webpage [youtube] EZYN2o1tsIA: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: EZYN2o1tsIA: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. [download] Downloading video 3 of 13 [youtube] xzF4IS1Vwac: Downloading webpage [youtube] xzF4IS1Vwac: Extracting video information [youtube] xzF4IS1Vwac: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Drift Away - Street Corner Symphony-xzF4IS1Vwac.mp4 [download] 100% of 26.96MiB in 09:32 [download] Downloading video 4 of 13 [youtube] QV1Vq2kqDNw: Downloading webpage [youtube] QV1Vq2kqDNw: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: QV1Vq2kqDNw: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. [download] Downloading video 5 of 13 [youtube] hBEuZappnAk: Downloading webpage [youtube] hBEuZappnAk: Extracting video information [youtube] hBEuZappnAk: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: World To Me - Street Corner Symphony-hBEuZappnAk.mp4 [download] 100% of 26.69MiB in 09:27 [download] Downloading video 6 of 13 [youtube] EZmUCmRSvO0: Downloading webpage [youtube] EZmUCmRSvO0: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: EZmUCmRSvO0: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. [download] Downloading video 7 of 13 [youtube] pGrxy72nxo0: Downloading webpage [youtube] pGrxy72nxo0: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: pGrxy72nxo0: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. [download] Downloading video 8 of 13 [youtube] PJAfoSsZgY8: Downloading webpage [youtube] PJAfoSsZgY8: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: PJAfoSsZgY8: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. [download] Downloading video 9 of 13 [youtube] 8H7A5UhR7Vw: Downloading webpage [youtube] 8H7A5UhR7Vw: Extracting video information [youtube] 8H7A5UhR7Vw: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Most of It - Street Corner Symphony (Original) - A cappella-8H7A5UhR7Vw.mp4 [download] 100% of 44.23MiB in 15:39 [download] Downloading video 10 of 13 [youtube] v197cMu4D8Y: Downloading webpage [youtube] v197cMu4D8Y: Extracting video information [youtube] v197cMu4D8Y: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Streetcorner Symphony - Eleanor Rigby_Help!_Hey Jude - Live 1_26_11-v197cMu4D8Y.mp4 [download] 100% of 16.13MiB in 05:42 [download] Downloading video 11 of 13 [youtube] xYyl1ZjzKzM: Downloading webpage [youtube] xYyl1ZjzKzM: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: xYyl1ZjzKzM: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. [download] Downloading video 12 of 13 [youtube] ZBKtYAZ4UGo: Downloading webpage [youtube] ZBKtYAZ4UGo: Extracting video information [youtube] ZBKtYAZ4UGo: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Dead Man's Will (lyrics)- Street Corner Symhony.wmv-ZBKtYAZ4UGo.mp4 [download] 100% of 3.26MiB in 01:09 [download] Downloading video 13 of 13 [youtube] nz1VSUoeUaU: Downloading webpage [youtube] nz1VSUoeUaU: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: nz1VSUoeUaU: YouTube said: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. More than half of this group's vocal performances are blocked!! We need some sort of bit-torrent for censored youtubes, where those who've already downloaded a youtube file, can automatically make it available to others - this could also speed up download perhaps, taking a load off those poor overworked google servers... -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
