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What's even more strange to me is their geographical limitations for existing customers: "[...] If you leave these countries, you won’t be able to save videos
by iwintermute 9y ago
What's even more strange to me is their geographical limitations for existing customers:
"[...] If you leave these countries, you won’t be able to save videos offline, videos won’t play in the background, and you will see ads. " [0]
[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en
That's just BS.
- mikhailt 9y agoWhy is it strange? It has been common practice for decades now, you couldn't even buy games in Japan and play it on US console 10-20 years ago. That's because you do not own the content, you are licensing the content and the content have geographical restrictions set in place by the content providers. Until everyone sign an agreement to get rid of geographical restrictons, nothing we can do.
- iwintermute 9y agoIt's strange because in my mind I'm paying for youtube service of getting me videos (either with money or by wasting time on ads) And with this I would continue to pay for service AND also receive ads. I kinda understand perverted logic of licensing content and region locking due to price discrimination, but just in my mental model Youtube is more of a service provider than content seller. Edit: Either way, I'm paying for not seeing ads - so why would they still show them to me, after taking my money? It's their problem how they deal with second side (content creators & right owners, etc.) And right now it just seems like punishing paying customer (hey, adblocking is free :)