Good news: YouTube has restored all the video's on the Blender Foundation's channel.
Ton writes:
Last night the Youtube Support team contacted Francesco Siddi by phone. As we understand it now it’s a mix of coincidences, bad UIs, wrong error messages, ignorant support desks and our non-standard decision to not monetize a popular Youtube channel.
Continue reading the full story with the entire background of what went wrong on Blender.org. The PeerTube channel will remain as a test, but the team is too busy to fully build that out right now.
Update: some people report still errors - according to YouTube it can take several hours before the changes are available everywhere.
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the content is still blocked by saying; Deze video bevat content van BlenderFoundation en is niet beschikbaar in je land.(België)
Glad to read this.
Same shit here: "This video contains content from BlenderFoundation. It is not available in your country."
Good news but is good have a plan B for a future problem with youtube, is incredible that a giant of internet like youtube have a very bad customer service, is near to none customer service.
To be fair, Google's never been a company good for customer service. Especially for their free services.
Still blocked here in Orlando FL
I call that a weaselling back down on their behalf.
They plainly saw the Blender traffic as something they weren't getting in on and they have a FU 'attitude' toward their clients.
I am all for having a plan B ready too, just in case... and it might be good to let them know that as well.
Still blocked in France, stop YT...
Give it a good while. YouTube always takes a while to fix these kinds of errors.
Glad to learn all is getting back in order. Love how Blender keeps plowing forward and maintains a great reputation in the process!
.... nice to know you don't want Americans watching these videos... ouch.
You may be missing the point here - this is caused by YouTube, not by the Blender Foundation.
It's already working in Colombia.
Don't go back to him, he'll only hurt you again:)