Google has done evil: Canada excluded on YouTube

I was discussing the videos of OK Go (treadmill video), made a huge success by YouTube, and searching for the video that is said to be their main competition at the Grammy's this year.

Being old, I wasn't familiar with the video entitled '8th of November' so I went to see if it's on YouTube. There's a million music videos on YouTube, uploaded by users without permission.  However, since being purchased by Google, YouTube has said it will, with deals from the record companies, put every music video every made, pretty much, on their site.

No company with billions of dollars at stake for shareholders is not going to 'do no evil' as Google still maintains is it's main corporate principle.

When I went to click on the video for '8th of November,' I got this message of horror:

"This video is blocked from your viewing location due to restrictions requested by the content producer."

Probably because I'm in Canada and Google has sold out to US interests.

YouTube, above all, is a community. Teenagers in Asia lipsyncing to pop songs made YouTube a 1.6 billion dollar site.  Google is segregating the global community of YouTubers by making deals that are in its corporate financial interests, but not in the interest of those who got it where it is. We all saw this coming.

They're excluding Canada, my home and native land.  As a videoblogger who is more and more entrenched in the YouTube community every day, I feel like I've just received a giant boot to the head.

As YouTube seeks more and more ways of making money for Google shareholders, they are inevitably going to sell out to an increasing number of corporate content producers who will restrict viewing of their videos to people only in the United $tates. If you can't show it everywhere, don't  show it, don't include it on YouTube.

This is a huge step backwards and goes against what the essence of YouTube actually is: it's community; it's global community.