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Old 20-10-2010, 00:38
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Manics' YouTube Channel

Did you know the WHOLE channel - that's right, ALL of it - is blocked in the USA???

I can't even begin to imagine what the point of THAT is. It certainly isn't going to help drum up support for any upcoming North American tours.

Honestly, I can just barely even be bothered any more....
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Old 20-10-2010, 02:58
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Probably copyright/record label issues.

It's pretty silly.
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Old 20-10-2010, 03:33
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Yep, blocked here too! Sony apparently thinks we'd be violating music copy write laws if we were to view the vids on that channel. Can't say I understand why. Perhaps the channel is only registered in the UK/Europe. Or maybe Sony just doesn't want them to have too much exposure in N America. I mean, selling records, getting people interested in seeing them live? Pfft! Why on earth would they want that?
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Old 20-10-2010, 03:43
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Have any of you fine gentlemen tried using a proxy from the UK? I haven't tried it yet, but it's worth a shot....
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Old 20-10-2010, 08:14
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Old 20-10-2010, 10:05
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Europe is in the same situation. that's stupid.
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Old 20-10-2010, 10:12
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I'm often linking new videos from that channel when they've been up for a couple of hours without a single view. Even then something like the acoustic Hazelton Avenue has fewer than 600 views after a week.

It's an embarrassment how poorly it's been handled. The content is getting increasingly good but it's all for nothing. In a medium where a Lady Gaga video can get 300,000,000 views, I too fail to see what possible good they think can come from restricting access.
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Old 20-10-2010, 11:40
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if Sony didn't block it to everyone outside of the UK, they would probably sell more records around the world, and then Nicky Wire wouldn't be able to moan about "the internet" since it would help make his band a success.

sure, it's cutting their noses off to spite their faces, but God forbid something that Nicky can moan about be taken away from him!
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Old 20-10-2010, 11:42
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I bet it's not a deliberate thing more an error on the part of the person who set the account up.
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Old 20-10-2010, 12:31
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Would it be worth setting up a fansite channel by ForeverDelayed for example? Not sure if that would solve the problem but it could be a nice proposition, ie sifting through and picking the best of the live vids etc?
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Old 20-10-2010, 14:17
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I bet it's not a deliberate thing more an error on the part of the person who set the account up.
Doubt it's a error, sony blocks everything outside uk. Not only manics stuff.
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Old 20-10-2010, 16:29
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Which one is blocked there appears to be two manics channels now:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Manicstv
http://www.youtube.com/user/Manicstvsme
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Old 20-10-2010, 16:40
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^ They're both completely blocked for me, in the US. It really is pitiful.
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Old 21-10-2010, 00:00
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Yep, blocked for me too.
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Old 21-10-2010, 15:47
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Which one is blocked there appears to be two manics channels now:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Manicstv
It's blocked I really don't understand this whole blocked on you country... I mean why I can't see videos that other can?!
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