YouTube viewing restrictions

Experiments with YouTube Viewing Restrictions

23-Sep-2019

Here's an interview with Edward Snowden from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, uploaded to YouTube by the official show channel on 19-Sep-2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArFP7ZJrtg

Only you can't watch this in the UK.

Bring up a VPN and tunnel to the USA (or anywhere else), and you can watch it.

I've installed proxychains to be able to download it, but that also fails...

chrism@maxentius:~/Videos$ proxychains youtube-dl -f 22 PArFP7ZJrtg -o x.mp4
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
[youtube] PArFP7ZJrtg: Downloading webpage
|DNS-request| www.youtube.com
|S-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-4.2.2.2:53-<><>-OK
|DNS-response| www.youtube.com is 216.58.212.14
|S-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-216.58.212.14:443-<><>-OK
[youtube] PArFP7ZJrtg: Downloading video info webpage
|DNS-request| www.youtube.com
|S-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-4.2.2.2:53-<><>-OK
|DNS-response| www.youtube.com is 172.217.169.142
|S-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-172.217.169.142:443-<><>-OK
[download] Resuming download at byte 415911
|DNS-request| r2---sn-nfpuji-1gil.googlevideo.com
dig: 'r2---sn-nfpuji-1gil.googlevideo.com' is not a legal IDN name (string contains forbidden two hyphens pattern), use +noidnin
|DNS-response|: r2---sn-nfpuji-1gil.googlevideo.com does not exist
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 1] Unknown error>
chrism@maxentius:~/Videos$

The error message saying to "use +noidnin" doesn't make much sense either:

chrism@maxentius:~/Videos$ proxychains --noidnin youtube-dl -f 22 PArFP7ZJrtg
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
/usr/bin/proxychains: 9: exec: --noidnin: not found
chrism@maxentius:~/Videos$ proxychains +noidnin youtube-dl -f 22 PArFP7ZJrtg
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
/usr/bin/proxychains: 9: exec: +noidnin: not found
chrism@maxentius:~/Videos$

Searching for that turns up only people reporting it (or writing weird long blogposts with the error repeated over and over again that are clones of other blogposts doing the same).

All odd.