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I was just reading about the story of British ISPs blocking access to a number of sites (one among them Wikipedia). It is told that Wikipedia is blocked because of a single article that features the cover of an album of the Scorpions (a German rock band) that is considered to be child pornograpgy. The article (that I was reading) also says that the band is best known for their song "Rock You Like a Hurricane". I googled for the song title and clicked on both YouTube hits that came up on the first page. Both of them said what's in the title of this post: "this video is not available in your country". I'm not quite sure what to make of this. Is YouTube now filtering in accordance with legal control on a per country basis? Or did some Hungarian pro children activist group contact YouTube to block those videos from Hungarian visitors? Of course it's non sense. There're dozens of video sharing sites that I can use to watch the vid.

Update: apparently this is a restriction put in by the uploader of the video.

PS: after watching that Scorpions vid I don't really feel any loss due to it being blocked on YouTube.