Online video streaming and hosting
Mark R Robertson   |   March 19, 2008   |  

Thanks to Kevin Nalts from WillVideoForFood for posting a hack from Jischinger that lets you watch blocked YouTube videos.

Just copy the alphanumeric code from the video page URL (the one after the “=” sign) and paste it after this: http://www.youtube.com/v/

So this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLN59ZOweUE

…becomes this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/pLN59ZOweUE

The resulting video player fills your browser window, sans autoplay. Just goes to show that geographic scarcity is a fragile and artificial illusion inside online video.

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  • azn069
    It actually works for me, I just watched a segment from The fast and the furious Tokyo Drift
  • Brian
    It did not work
  • Jess
    the problem here is that if the video was taken down, you still cant view it.
  • BBoy99
    I got it to bring up the video but it wont play it
  • BBoy99
    I got it to open up the video which I was unable to do before just got the "This video is private." message...but it still wont play and is telling me "this a private video please make sure you accept the users friend request." Is there anyway around that?
  • mamdhamee
    great
  • praveenzp
    Works nomore.. Still get the region specific error messages in youtube
  • works but only for a short time :-)
  • Adam
    Fuckin' right, dude! Seems so simple, but gets around their feeble defenses!
  • xXAdR4LiFeXx
    Lol it worked!
    i made a copyright video purposely & waited to be blocked & it worked!
    Here is the copyright video i made! It is the Spongebob Squarepants Intro!
    http://www.youtube.com/v/7Cadjna9vUE
  • yeah, it only works for a little while until they detect it... it no longer
    works... sorry my friend, bummer
  • fmm
    it's very cool. but there's only one problem. IT DOESNT WORK
  • Correct, this is a very old post, things change. Sorry
  • Leo
    to bad youtube is not more like emule or kazaa. cuzz onece the file is up it stays up
  • Who?
    doesn't work!
  • Bummer. Oh well, Id expect that. This is an older post. Thanks for the update.
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