How to bypass: “This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.”
or for the Germans: "Dieses Video ist aufgrund von Urheberrechtsbeschränkungen in deinem Land nicht verfügbar.".
To get around this you can use a Proxy Server. A Proxy is basically a computer where you detour your internet through. So instead of the website seeing your computer, it will see the detoured computer. This computer resides in another country and might not be restricted to watch the YouTube video!
To find these Proxys you can just Google them. Most of the videos on YouTube are not restricted in America so you try to find an American Proxy Server.
Here is one that has always worked for me: http://www.tubemirror.com/
Where it says "Enter the URL Address:" just copy and paste your YouTube video link in and click surf! Done.
This is completely legal!
December 29th, 2009 - 01:17
Hey, another way past this is to take the video ID number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_dlKGoJR1U would be X_dlKGoJR1U) and put it on the embedding link which is http://www.youtube.com/v/
So the link would be
January 27th, 2011 - 15:24
@Limited: that trick doesnt work anymore
however you can still use robot sites like http://tubemirror.com to mirror the whole video