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There are some very complicated legal issues that come up with international video.

Movie companies sometimes don’t want things distributed on certain areas - ever. Like when there are different productions of the same movie for different areas.

The productions would compete against each other.

It’s one of the reasons DVD has multiple incompatible regions.

I don’t know if this is YouTube’s reasoning.

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No, the complaint is opposite of that. They're seeking ways to escape their translation efforts because it's so bad.

It has nothing to do with difficulties of offering translations. It's about declining complimentary ketchup squeeze on latte.

It's not even about it being a bad translation or not. If I am a native speaker, I WANT TO READ AND HEAR EVERYTHING IN THE ORIGINAL goddammit. Google juat became IBM in the 90s, it's depressing.

It's not just Youtube, if there wasn't a google.com/ncr, I'd have to seek alternatives a long time ago.

And many other sites that confuse country with language (geizhals.eu, ... etc)

If I remember right YouTube already provides the tools for that and you can just outright region lock an upload (possibly depending on having the right creator bits as a studio/large channel)

Yes, for CMS channels, which would be your movie studios, TV studios, etc. They have an option to block certain countries from watching it. If you are around in YouTube often enough you will find a video or two that will say something like "this video isn't available in your region/country"

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