Blocked video

When a video gets blocked for whatever reason, it cannot be viewed by anyone other than the uploader itself, meaning it has been banned or restricted by the YouTube community. If you are browsing through YouTube and find a video with this thumbnail and title, this shows the video has been blocked.
For copyright enforcement, the copyright owners can opt to limit how much in length the video can be viewable or restrict it in any length, thus may lead to it being blocked in certain countries, or even worldwide, rendering it completely private.
==Causes of Video Blocking==
The blocking of YouTube videos often occur for a wide variety of reasons including:
* Preventing criticism of a ruler, government or its officials, or religion or its leaders.
* Violations of national laws, including:
** Infringing on copyright and intellectual property protection laws.
** Violations of hate speech, ethics, or morality-based laws.
** Violations of national security legislation.
** It contains violence, sexual gratification or other forms of graphic content.
==Blocking of Videos in Specific Countries==
Some videos can be blocked in specific territories for the reasons listed above, such as to stagger the release of a featured product, avoid losing viewership to users in other countries, maximizing a featured product's impact in a certain region, or preventing users from viewing content in their region because of legal reasons, most commonly due to censorship laws or the channel does not have the rights to certain intellectual property outside a specified region.
===Denmark===
Music videos were blocked in Denmark in July 2020 as a result of a dispute between YouTube and KODA over music royalty fees. This lasted until October of the same year when YouTube and Polaris Nordic, which represents KODA, signed a new contract, bringing music videos back onto the Danish version of YouTube.
===Finland===
In November 2017, videos containing background music were blocked by Finnish nonprofit performance rights organization Teosto in Finland. This was a decision made by Google as a result of not having an agreement with Teosto to show music videos in the country. Google and Teosto were able to make a temporary agreement the following month, and music videos were once again viewable in Finland.
===Germany===
From March 2009 until October 2016, music videos or videos that contain background music were blocked in Germany due to a dispute between Google and GEMA, a performing rights society in Germany. A German court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube can be held liable for hosting videos containing copyrighted music without the rightsholder's authorization. As a result, these videos were blocked after YouTube's previous agreement with GEMA expired and negotiations for a new one fell out. The dispute ended after the two companies reached an agreement over royalties.
A study confirmed for the duration of the dispute, nearly two-thirds of the top 1,000 most viewed videos as well as 3% of all videos were unviewable in Germany.
===Japan===
Since early 2022, anime-related videos as well as videos containing anime content have been geo-blocked in Japan as a result of an ongoing dispute between YouTube and Toei Animation. Japan's Copyright Act doesn't have an equivalent of the U.S. Fair Use exception and following the arrest of three people who uploaded ten-minute movie edits to YouTube in 2021, the Tokyo District Court ruled that users can be held liable if they host copyrighted content on YouTube without the author's permission. After Toei Animation blocked almost all of Totally Not Mark's videos that same year, videos containing their content have been unavailable in Japan since March 2022 after they were reinstated.
Videos containing modified video game content have also been blocked in Japan due to the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, a Japanese federal law that forbids individuals from distributing video game mods for profit.
===Malaysia===
In May 2013, despite Malaysia's government having no intent to censor their internet, videos critical of the Malaysian government were blocked in Malaysia.
=== Poland ===
In June 2014, Google have blocked from this video. (Along with Music videos,)
=== Vietnam ===
Even though YouTube is legally accessible in Vietnam, videos that are critical of the Vietnamese government are blocked in the country.
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