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topic channel video blocked in all 249 regions
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There are obscure "topic channels" on YouTube with videos that are blocked in every country.

Some music tracks from obscure YouTube "topic channels" are blocked in every country, for example Lesiem - I am brave and July Jannington - Your Limit.

The "I am brave" video initially appeared on a channel with 308K subscribers named  "Various Artists - Topic" (February 2023 archive).

Does anyone have a clue where these strange topic channels come from? And what is the purpose of these worldwide-blocked videos?
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topic channel video blocked in all 249 regions
(Screenshot from YouTube metadata tool.)

There are obscure "topic channels" on YouTube with videos that are blocked in every country.

Some music tracks from obscure YouTube "topic channels" are blocked in every country, for example Lesiem - I am brave and July Jannington - Your Limit.

The "I am brave" video initially appeared on a channel with 308K subscribers named  "Various Artists - Topic" (February 2023 archive).

Does anyone have a clue where these strange topic channels come from? And what is the purpose of these worldwide-blocked videos?

My guess is that they want no body to listen to there music so they have it set up to copy strike and remove every video YouTube finds that has there music in it. From what I saw it was a video where only people with the link can see it and that it's unavailable.

EDIT: I used a region look up site and Allowed countries
Somaliland
Kosovo
N. Cyprus

EDIT 2: This is the site I used to see where they are available watannetwork.com/tools/blocked/#google_vignette
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My guess is that they want no body to listen to there music so they have it set up to copy strike and remove every video YouTube finds that has there music in it. From what I saw it was a video where only people with the link can see it and that it's unavailable.

If no one can access their music, no one is able to use their music in first place.

And how would these people benefit from no one being able to use their music?

The July Jannington video has 401 views, so it was non-blocked at some point.

Why would someone put work into creating a soundtrack just for a few hundred views?



EDIT: I used a region look up site and Allowed countries
Somaliland
Kosovo
N. Cyprus


Interesting. Which tool did you use? (You already answered it, thanks.)

I tried views4you, but it doesn't list any countries.
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My guess is that they want no body to listen to there music so they have it set up to copy strike and remove every video YouTube finds that has there music in it. From what I saw it was a video where only people with the link can see it and that it's unavailable.
If no one can access their music, no one is able to use their music in first place.

And how would these people benefit from no one being able to use their music?

The July Jannington video has 401 views, so it was non-blocked at some point.

Why would someone put work into creating a soundtrack just for a few hundred views?


EDIT: I used a region look up site and Allowed countries
Somaliland
Kosovo
N. Cyprus
Interesting. Which tool did you use? (You already answered it, thanks.)

I tried views4you, but it doesn't list any countries.

Maybe it got leaked and they never wanted to release it and now they copy striking anyone who puts it up? Maybe they haven't released it yet and it's secretly got the link leaked and some people watched it and they wanted it blocked?

EDIT: July Jannington has music on there Tiktok iirc and they also have an NFT so maybe they hid all music to hide themselves because they may have gotten bad publicity because of there NFT.

Lesiem is a German group and the song I am Brave is not listed on there Wikipedia so it could be a leaked song and they put it on YouTube as a way to try to take down any video that uploads the leak.

These 2 reasons could be why it's the way it is with the private and copyright blocked
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Maybe it got leaked and they never wanted to release it and now they copy striking anyone who puts it up? Maybe they haven't released it yet and it's secretly got the link leaked and some people watched it and they wanted it blocked?


Possible, but it doesn't explain why it would happen on such a large scale. And the two videos I linked are from 2022 and 2023. It doesn't seem like whoever made it was ever going to release it.

Also, whoever created those tracks would not benefit from keeping it to themselves forever.

There is also a slight possibility that those geo-blocked music tracks are stolen themselves.
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Lesiem is a German group and the song I am Brave is not listed on there Wikipedia so it could be a leaked song and they put it on YouTube as a way to try to take down any video that uploads the leak.


What seems strange is that this "Lesiëm" was active from 1999 to 2005. The track "I am brave" is dated February 2023.
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Maybe it got leaked and they never wanted to release it and now they copy striking anyone who puts it up? Maybe they haven't released it yet and it's secretly got the link leaked and some people watched it and they wanted it blocked?
Possible, but it doesn't explain why it would happen on such a large scale. And the two videos I linked are from 2022 and 2023. It doesn't seem like whoever made it was ever going to release it.

Also, whoever created those tracks would not benefit from keeping it to themselves forever.

There is also a slight possibility that those geo-blocked music tracks are stolen themselves.

Does it really matter if a song benefits anyone? As long as the original artists who make songs like it they never have to release anything of it. They can do what they want with it. Yes it's possible they where leaked and got copy struck themselves. But it also could be a way to block others from posting the videos.
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Lesiem is a German group and the song I am Brave is not listed on there Wikipedia so it could be a leaked song and they put it on YouTube as a way to try to take down any video that uploads the leak.
What seems strange is that this "Lesiëm" was active from 1999 to 2005. The track "I am brave" is dated February 2023.

anyone can post a song from any time frame. Think about a band from say the 80's none of there music was made in the time frame from opening of YouTube until now and then the band disbands. Someone who works for that company or even one of the band members could at any time upload the music to YouTube and it will say whatever time it was put on YouTube when they upload it. The time it was uploaded on YouTube doesn't necessarily mean it was the time that the song was made
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