Where have all the YouTube videos gone?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Why is it that when I try to watch videos on YouTube, I keep getting the error “We’re Sorry, This Video Is No Longer Available”. I estimate that this happens to about half of the video’s that I try to watch.
According to their website “If a user removes their video, or if it’s removed for violating our Terms of Use, it will no longer be available in our search, in your favorites, nor via embedding within other websites.”
However, I have had some of my own video’s removed, which do not possibly violate their terms of use. In particular, one video is broken into three sections, part 1 and 2 won’t play, but part 3 will!
Is it just me, or are you having the same problem?
Update (15 Dec 08)
It appears that if a lot of bandwidth is coming from some IP ranges you get the error message. IE: The error is to do with the streaming and not with the video’s themselves. If you hit refresh a couple of times it should come right. I suspect that it has something to do with the limited bandwidth to South Africa.
I have had similar problems on some websites where they say that “your IP range is producing a lot of traffic, so please try again later”.
