I know that everyone already realised about this news months ago but I really want to write about this since Veoh was my favourite place for entertainment. As you all know, the website had stopped providing service to multiple countries around the world in late May 2008. As of June 2008, visitors in the vast majority of countries, including Asia, portions of Europe, Africa, Central America and South America, as listed below, have reported being blocked, experiencing a similar message for their region. No proper announcements were made before they blocked the countries. The reason was they had too low traffic.

Here is the latest list of blocked countries I found from the Veoh forum itself. Apparently the original maker of the thread portrayed the countries as “Low class countries and full with poor people”. It’s offending but it’s kinda true. The company stated that the decision was made in order to focus on the more than 33 markets in which it has the most viewers.

1.Afghanistan
2.Albania
3.Algeria
4.Andorra
5.Angola
6.Antigua and Barbuda
7.Argentina
8.Armenia
9.Azerbaijan
10.Bahamas
11.Bahrain
12.Bangladesh
13.Barbados
14.Belarus
15.Belize
16.Benin
17.Bhutan
18.Bolivia
19.Bosnia and Herzegovina
20.Botswana
21.Brazil
22.Brunei
23.Bulgaria
24.Burkina Faso
25.Burundi
26.Cambodia
27.Cameroon
28.Cape Verde
29.Central African Republic
30.Chad
31.Chile
32.Colombia
33.Comoros
34.Congo
35.Costa Rica
36.Côte d’Ivoire
37.Croatia
38.Cuba
39.Cyprus
40.Czech Republic
41.Djibouti
42.Dominica
43.Dominican Republic
44.East Timor (Timor Timur)
45.Ecuador
46.Egypt
47.El Salvador
48.Equatorial Guinea
49.Eritrea
50.Estonia
51.Ethiopia
52.Fiji
53.Gabon
54.Gambia, The
55.Georgia
56.Ghana
57.Grenada
58.Guatemala
59.Guinea
60.Guinea-Bissau
61.Guyana
62.Haiti
63.Honduras
64.Hungary
65.Iceland
66.India
67.Indonesia
68.Iran
69.Iraq
70.Jamaica
71.Jordan
72.Kazakhstan
73.Kenya
74.Kiribati
75.Korea, North
76.Kuwait
77.Kyrgyzstan
78.Laos
79.Latvia
80.Lebanon
81.Lesotho
82.Liberia
83.Libya
84.Liechtenstein
85.Lithuania
86.Luxembourg
87.Macedonia
88.Madagascar
89.Malawi
90.Malaysia
91.Maldives
92.Mali
93.Malta
94.Marshall Islands
95.Mauritania
96.Mauritius
97.Mexico
98.Micronesia
99.Moldova
100.Mongolia
101.Montenegro
102.Morocco
103.Mozambique
104.Myanmar (Burma)
105.Namibia
106.Nauru
107.Nepal
108.Nicaragua
109.Niger
110.Nigeria
111.Oman
112.Pakistan
113.Palau
114.Panama
115.Papua New Guinea
116.Paraguay
117.Peru
118.Qatar
119.Romania
120.Rwanda
121.Saint Kitts and Nevis
122.Saint Lucia
123.Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
124.Samoa
125.San Marino
126.Sao Tome and Principe
127.Saudi Arabia
128.Senegal
129.Serbia
130.Seychelles
131.Sierra Leone
132.Singapore
133.Slovakia
134.Slovenia
135.Solomon Islands
136.Somalia
137.Sri Lanka
138.Sudan
139.Suriname
140.Swaziland
141.Syria
142.Tajikistan
143.Tanzania
144.Thailand
145.Togo
146.Tonga
147.Trinidad and Tobago
148.Tunisia
149.Turkey
150.Turkmenistan
151.Tuvalu
152.Uganda
153.Ukraine
154.United Arab Emirates
155.Uruguay
156.Uzbekistan
157.Vanuatu
158.Vatican City
159.Venezuela
160.Vietnam
161.Western Sahara
162.Yemen
163.Zambia
164.Zimbabwe
165.South Africa

Here’s an article I found:

Veoh blocked some international access

It’s not surprising that a lot of users were really frustrated and some claimed that they’ve just finished downloading the Veoh TV. I was shocked as well. My friend was really furious that she couldn’t watch her yaoi anime and she is still going on about it (Don’t ask). On the last day of the exam which was the end of May, I was so excited that I was finally free from schoolwork and I can watch videos all day long! Imagine going through all the hard work at school and you thought that you could release your stress by watching some videos. Unfortunately, wishes don’t come true. Why? Are we not worthy enough? I don’t think I’ve seen any announcements except articles why the countries are blocked. They should have at least announced it before blocking the countries.

“Unfortunately Veoh will be ending service in your country due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining markets when we have the highest concentration of viewers.”

LAWL~ I just had to quote that for some reason.

And they blocked countries that are not wealthy enough for them. I’m sorry, is that how you call professional marketing? Discriminating is not going to advertise the website. Half of the users are frustrated because of the discrimination while the other half are just furious because they can’t watch their videos. I’m one of those people who got stabbed because their country isn’t “wealthy” enough to view the videos from their website.

But! There is a solution to this problem. Since I only watch anime and asian dramas and if you have the same interest as I do, I would recommend the website Crunchyroll. Although, they don’t allow uploading licensed series and it doesn’t have the “download now” button too. Some people also created some kind of a hacking scheme to unblock the website.

That’s it for my rant. Ah well~

P.S When I think about it, I shouldn’t take it personally. It’s just a website 8D

but it’s unfair D<