Veoh high on blocking
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Was what greeted me this morning when I got online to find some videos to download. Can you say “omgwtfwhyisveohblockingmalaysian?!” in 2 seconds? I believe I did just that in the span of 2 seconds for a whole 5 minutes.
I don’t usually frequent Veoh due to the load time. I much prefer crunchyroll for my daily dose of anime and drama. But hey, Veoh happens to have Gokusen 3 where crunchyroll does not.
Curious to find out the reason behind the blockage of Malaysian viewers into Veoh, I scouted out their forums to find that it wasn’t only Malaysia! In fact, they have blocked just about all the minor countries there is!
The list of blocked countries A to Z updated as of 1st July 2008 :
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor (Timor Timur)
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guam
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, North
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Qatar
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
And countless others that haven’t noticed that their countries were blocked as of yet. Not to mention the number of countries being listed here is GROWING by the minute!
The question here is…Why?!
The answer as per what the administrator of the forum says (repeatedly answering the same over and over again as I might add) and the conclusion that COULD be made :
“Hello Everyone,
Unfortunately Veoh has ended service in your countries due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining service in countries when we have the highest concentration of viewers.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for using Veoh.”
We can conclude that yes, minor countries MAY not bring in as much revenue when it comes to their advertisers and what not. And yes, minor countries may not have the highest concentration of users. BUT, as I’ve already mentioned, MINOR countries. Compared to MAJOR countries, of course we minor countries will have less viewers compared to them.
“Folks - bear with us on this front. It certainly seems like a harsh decision, especially when you’re on the wrong end of the rule, however this is something that is necessary for us to do to keep providing the service that we have. I am sure this, like the 5-minute preview limit, is something that will likely undergo some tuning as we go forward.”
Was it really? Was it really THAT necessary for them to block minor countries to provide their current services? Wasn’t Veoh doing fine even before this blockage? I don’t see other video sites such as YouTube, Google Videos, Crunchyroll, FlickPeek, Imeem, or other sites for that matter, doing what Veoh has currently done.
Think of how many viewers they have now lost due to this blockage. As minorities, it wouldn’t look like much, but if you add these minority countries together, the number of viewers can come close to equal to at least one or 2 major countries. An ant does not build a nest on its own.
Furthermore, I’d like to mention that, in these modern times, there are a considerable amount of bloggers out there whom are going into the whole video blogging frenzy where they like to make videos of things that interest, fascinate, intrigued them to make a video out of it. Where do they upload these videos? Video upload sites of course. What happens next? They get a link of their videos and post it up in their blogs.
Their initial goal? To keep a memory of their video. Their secondary goal? To share it with the world. But how can this be done for these Veoh video bloggers if their videos can ONLY be viewed by major countries? More or less upload the video if they so happened to be in the minor regions. And not to mention, the videos that were ALREADY uploaded!!
I’d understand if it was bandwidth problems and such but excuses such as “low concentration of users” is just plain discrimination in my point of view. And here I thought most the world have went past those barriers. Especially if you’re a matured individual/organization/country. We are, after all, residing on the same planet and would die the same way as everyone else when the world comes to an end thanks to our contributions to the growing amount of pollution, global warming, and everything that plain kills.
So dear Veoh, why discriminate us minorities and hurt yourself? Think about it! If you combine miorities together, you’d come up with one third or half the worlds population! (This is a rough estimate from me which I’m unsure of.) So do us all a favor, unblock us 
EDIT : I smell a crisis from this corner of the world where Veoh is concerned. Veoh users are on the move with their protest! *Arms self with rotten tomatoes*
EDIT EDIT : For your protesting delights, please look for more information at Veoh forums.
EDIT EDIT EDIT : Added more regions to the list of blocked countries. My my, how the list have finally grown up…
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT : * updated blocked countries as of 1st June 2008, FYI, that’s 17 updated countries.
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT : Finally finalized the list. Look at that…a whopping 166 countries blocked.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I’m from El Salvador, this move from Veoh can only be called RACIST, you don’t see YouTube doing this coward move to other people, this is nothing more than racism and some idiotic move on veoh’s behalf, this is just the beginning of a HUGE problem for Veoh, they’re not just messing with ONE country, they’re banning everything that doesn’t read “United States of America” from their site! And that spells trouble, they should correct their mistake quickly… trust me, they’re messing with fire and they’re gonna get burned. This is not a threat from my part, it’s a fact, Veoh is messing with millions of people around the globe…
As for Veoh’s staff, well, there’s an old saying that says that you don’t have to study to be an idiot!
Oh and BTW bad move from Veoh, we’re helping the U.S.A. on the war in Iraq, this ban is a bit**-slap to all of us Salvadorians. Fu** you Veoh!
May 31st, 2008 at 2:45 pm
*applauses* i wouldn’t have said it better myself. Uuum do
think the protests will work?? its true i thought that veoh was like always behind youtube. Malaysia has totally lost a valuable source. You’re right they WILL be losing MORE money and eventually end up destroying themselves. UNBLOCK M”SIA!!!!!!
May 31st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Funny that Singapore’s not listed in here. Not really insinuating anything, but I guess Singaporeans don’t use Veoh that much anyway? (Especially after their whole Odex escapade.)
May 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Sadly the list keeps growing…. )<
Veoh is making a HUGE mistake.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Current list of bocked countries by the Veoh F@gots:
1. Latvia
2. United Arab Emirates
3. Malaysia
4. Indonesia
5. Chile
6. Guatemala
7. Luxembourg
8. Costa Rica
9. Dominican Republic
10. Venezuela
11. Brazil
12. Puerto Rico
13. Guam
14. Jamaica
15. El Salvador
16. Hungary
17. Slovenia
18. Colombia
19. Cyprus
20. Romania
21. the Cayman Islands
22. Guadeloupe
23. Saudi Arabia
24. Peru
25. Panama
26. Czech Republic
27. Turkey
28. Lithuania
29. Croatia
30. Slovakia (new on the list)
31. Egypt (new on the list)
Which country will be next on the list?
May 31st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
add: Slovak republic
June 1st, 2008 at 12:23 am
Thank you everyone for the comments.
@ Andres Ventura :
Indeed, it’s a bad move on Veoh’s part to block countries due to minority and indeed, eventually they are gonna get burned by this decision. At this point, I’m just waiting to see what their explanation would be on this whole issue.
And thank you kindly for keeping me updated on the list
@ blabla :
I’m not really sure protesting will do much in this case. Throughout the whole day, much protest have been going on within the Veoh forums but sad to say, the admins are doing absolutely nothing to reply to their users. This does not bode well for Veoh in the sense of trustworthiness.
However do not despair, I heard that vreel[dot]net would be up soon. Hopefully bigger and better than Veoh. Hopefully.
@ Naddie :
If say Singapore have not been blocked, it is safe to say that Veoh evaluate each countries usage by percentage. What I mean is that, they have probably set up a certain scoring.
For example, although Singapore is small, but more than a certain percentage uses it but in Malaysia, there so happens to be less than a certain percentage actually using it.
This is just speculation on my part.
@ camper :
Thanks for the update on your part of the world
June 1st, 2008 at 4:05 am
add Romania to the blocked list too
… This is just mean…I sure hope there was some way we could make the veoh staff feel our wrath )<
June 1st, 2008 at 4:41 am
I’m from Denmark and it isn’t working here:(
June 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am
Jess: Well I guess that would make sense… But come on, their population is a fraction of ours, and we can’t make up the percentage to become a non-minority? It doesn’t really add up to me, lol.
Ah well, it doesn’t matter, I’m tired of all the drama. It’s like that time when Veoh decided to let us download their videos as flvs - look how that one turned out. Here’s hoping it’ll blow over in a couple of weeks. If not, there are always hacks to try and whatnot
June 1st, 2008 at 8:31 am
Im 4m jamaica and of course based on the list,im am also experiencing the same bullshit.personally im so upset i ready to wash my hands of veoh,even if they come back,it wud be months b4 i go back,if at all.tired of racism,in airport,job interviews,in hotels,every damn where.i have nothing against those who fit the descriptions that im about the state,but if ur not white and a citizen of a first world country,or well recognized 2nd world country.apparently we dont exist to the world,r we r just a nuisance they hav to accommodate.well like Naddie mentioned above,about hacks.i hav thought of a few and i read of one somewhere which shud be easy.but has not been tried by me r the other person.simply changing ur IP r proxy shud do the trick,logically speaking.and im told if
use mozilla firefox,which most ppl shud be using :D.there a function where it allows 
to change ur IP/proxy when surfing websites and it gives 
a loist of them 2 choose 4m,especially 1s 4m america,so yeah.thats wat i know so far.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:33 am
Remember ppl “DIVIDED WE FALL AND UNITED WE STAND”,”WE ARE MANY RACES & NATIONALITIES, BUT ONE PEOPLE”.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hey, they added 20 countries more:
COMPLETE LIST(for now):
1 Brazil
2 Jamaica
3 Chile
4 Puerto Rico
5 Indonesia
6 Guadeloupe
7 Malaysia
8 Venezuela
9 Guatemala
10 Luxembourg
11 Costa Rica
12 El Salvador
13 Panama
14 Dominican Republic
15 Saudi Arabia
16 Argentina
17 Cayman Islands
18 Slovenia
19 Hungary
20 Guam
21 Colombia
22 Chile
23 Romania
24 Cyprus
25 UAE
26 Latvia
27 Antigua & Barbuda
28 Malta
29 Trinidad & Tobago
30 Lithuania
31 Peru
32 Turkey
33 Czech Republic
34 Croatia
35 Bulgaria
36 Tanzania
37 Serbia
38 Egypt
39 Serbia
40 Mauritius
41 Morocco
42 Iran
43 Iceland
44 Jordan
45 Bermuda
46 Thailand
47 Sri Lanka
48 Brunei
49 Vietnam
50 Barbados
51 Guyana
52 Virgin Island
53 Kuwait
54 Algeria
55 Bahrain
56 Lebanon
57 Qatar
58 Tunisia
59 Syria
June 1st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I have now updated the list. It contains 16 more countries that were blocked from their actions. Thanks for the update.
@ Romaniajin :
They are not much feeling our wrath at the moment than avoiding the whole issue. In fact, they have only replied to the issue of being block for the first few forum thread makes. After that, I’m sure they have just averted their eyes when it comes to the sentence “Why is my country blocked?!”
I’m sure most of you have noticed that they have only replied to other threads that was not tied to their decision of blocking “low concentrated users” countries.
@ Dumdum :
I feel for you, man.
@ Naddie :
It would make sense in a way, but this is the internet and we’re not at war. There is absolutely no reason for them to build a barrier as if we are illegal immigrants about to bomb their whole system.
As for me, I’ll be updating the list as days go by and be on stand by to see what will happen in the coming weeks.
@ xxxblacknightxxx :
It’s not so much racism as it is internet discrimination and nationalism (if there were such a thing). If it was about race, I’d think even the US would be blocked as how it’s also multi-racial. But the fact is, they are blocking off minor countries.
Indeed, “one for all and all for one”.
@ Ahurr :
Thanks for the list and just to mention this bit as I did in the forums, there are duplicates in that list, for example, Chile. But thanks anyway
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June 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Add Uruguay.
Looks like the only latin country NOT on the list is Mexico (for now).
June 1st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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June 1st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I Just don,t understand why they would do this makes absolutely so sense to me were things really that bad. I can’t help but think tat somebody needs a @%$# slap.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:34 pm
@ gozberry7 :
Thank you for the update, it will be added shortly.
@ dknight :
Speculations are the only answers we have right now it seems, but yes, a slap or two would indeed help us feel way better
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 am
Pakistan has been blocked too.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
hi….
i’m from malaysia…veoh is the only one i used to download video…
now where can i download a video with a better quality….
help me pls……
June 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
i’m from the UAE… UNTIED ARAB EMIRATES
AND THIS IS NOOOOOOOOT FAIR AT ALL…
i don’t really care about veoh anymore.. but just the idea that some countries are blocked and others aren’t .. this is soooooooooooooooooooo … ah..
let me not continue..
June 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
wat a stupid decision that they have done
June 8th, 2008 at 11:08 am
June 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Have you checked Wikipedia recently? If not, brace yourself:
So far visitors (IP addresses) from Asia, Europe, Central America and South America such as the countries listed below have reported being blocked, experiencing a similar message for their region.
1.Afghanistan
2.Albania
3.Algeria
4.Andorra
5.Angola
6.Anguilla
7.Antigua and Barbuda
8.Argentina
9.Armenia
10.Azerbaijan
11.Bahamas
12.Bahrain
13.Bangladesh
14.Barbados
15.Belarus
16.Belize
17.Benin
18.Bhutan
19.Bolivia
20.Bosnia and Herzegovina
21.Botswana
22.Brazil
23.Brunei
24.Bulgaria
25.Burkina Faso
26.Burundi
27.Cambodia
28.Cameroon
29.Cape Verde
30.Central African Republic
31.Chad
32.Chile
33.Colombia
34.Comoros
35.Congo
36.Costa Rica
37.Côte d’Ivoire
38.Croatia
39.Cuba
40.Cyprus
41.Czech Republic
42.Djibouti
43.Dominica
44.Dominican Republic
45.East Timor (Timor Timur)
46.Ecuador
47.Egypt
48.El Salvador
49.Equatorial Guinea
50.Eritrea
51.Estonia
52.Ethiopia
53.Fiji
54.Gabon
55.Gambia, The
56.Georgia
57.Ghana
58.Guam
59.Grenada
60.Guatemala
61.Guinea
62.Guinea-Bissau
63.Guyana
64.Haiti
65.Honduras
66.Hungary
67.Iceland
68.India
69.Indonesia
70.Iran
71.Iraq
72.Jamaica
73.Jordan
74.Kazakhstan
75.Kenya
76.Kiribati
77.Korea, North
78.Kuwait
79.Kyrgyzstan
80.Laos
81.Latvia
82.Lebanon
83.Lesotho
84.Liberia
85.Libya
86.Liechtenstein
87.Lithuania
88.Luxembourg
89.Macedonia
90.Madagascar
91.Malawi
92.Malaysia
93.Maldives
94.Mali
95.Malta
96.Marshall Islands
97.Mauritania
98.Mauritius
99.Mexico
100.Micronesia
101.Moldova
102.Mongolia
103.Montenegro
104.Morocco
105.Mozambique
106.Myanmar (Burma)
107.Namibia
108.Nauru
109.Nepal
110.Nicaragua
111.Niger
112.Nigeria
113.Oman
114.Pakistan
115.Palau
116.Panama
117.Papua New Guinea
118.Paraguay
119.Peru
120.Qatar
121.Romania
122.Rwanda
123.Saint Kitts and Nevis
124.Saint Lucia
125.Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
126.Samoa
127.San Marino
128.Sao Tome and Principe
129.Saudi Arabia
130.Senegal
131.Serbia
132.Seychelles
133.Sierra Leone
134.Singapore
135.Slovakia
136.Slovenia
137.Solomon Islands
138.Somalia
139.Sri Lanka
140.Sudan
141.Suriname
142.Swaziland
143.Syria
144.Tajikistan
145.Tanzania
146.Thailand
147.Togo
148.Tonga
149.Trinidad and Tobago
150.Tunisia
151.Turkey
152.Turkmenistan
153.Tuvalu
154.Uganda
155.Ukraine
156.United Arab Emirates
157.Uruguay
158.Uzbekistan
159.Vanuatu
160.Vatican City
161.Venezuela
162.Vietnam
163.Western Sahara
164.Yemen
165.Zambia
166.Zimbabwe
June 16th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Yea veoh was where i watched my anime but those little motha fockers just had to ban my country .why? birds cant fly without wings they dont force a tall basket ball player to play on his knees so why does veoh force us to do this veoh was the number 1 spot for my viewing pleasure sort of but i still like the site now the can go fthemselve in a barrel and go fin them bomboclaat motha.So burn in hell veoh >D )D
July 19th, 2008 at 9:43 am
The only thing I find funny out of all this is 160: Vatican City….
Veoh blocked The Pope!!!!
I guess they have called holy wrath down on them or something xD
Though I find it interesting I don’t see the Philippines on there.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Just wanted to drop a note to let you know what a great site you have. It is a great resource and a great place to drop by….
July 30th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Absolutely love your post Deviled Jess!!!
I’m from Thailand, so I’m one of those who isn’t happy with this stupid idea from VEOH of blocking us minority countries.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
hey Naddie are
blind or 
juz noob … singapore in 134 ???
August 6th, 2008 at 5:42 am
September 1st, 2008 at 4:14 am
I loved the post. I think your thinking is nearly matching the great sukrat’s cocept.