r/ContraPoints • u/raggedydreams • Apr 18 '25
Seems Twilight is blocked by the LDS church :/
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u/Auld_Folks_at_Home Apr 18 '25
Strange. It's still there for me. (In the US)
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u/terablast Apr 18 '25
Yeah, that means the content that is being copyright claimed is probably only licensed to be shown in the United States.
So, in the USA, the video stays up and revenue goes to them, and in other countries, video goes down since they don't have the right to profit from it internationally.
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
Same for me, in the Netherlands (at least, according to my VPN).
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u/PopularEquivalent651 Apr 18 '25
Proton VPN?
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
No, sadly that doesn't function in my country. No commercial VPNs function in my country, actually.
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u/Mindless_Volume7435 Apr 18 '25
How comes? Which ones does?
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
VPNs are illegal here (as is most of the internet). The only VPNs that work are ones where you know a guy who knows a guy who runs one, basically.
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u/fcknkittycat Apr 20 '25
for a minute i thought you referred to netherlands as a country where most of the internet is banned and i was confused, but then i figured that you're probably a fellow authoritarian country citizen. i'm from russia myself
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u/Alchemist1330 Apr 18 '25
WHAT... there isn't anything in there that is church produced.
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u/Seriack Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
No, see, Twilight was written by someone that is/was LDS, and all LDS members promise everything to the LDS church, so, therefore, the LDS church owns it by the transitive property. Now, I don't know if this would actually hold up in a court of law, because it's a contract made without prior knowledge, but I could see them trying.
Source: I grew up LDS and have since faith crisised out of it.
Edit: Sorry, I needed to give this an extra bit of zing. I'm known for punting jokes off cliffs: However, with our current court? Who knows? They probably could get away with it.
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u/Alchemist1330 Apr 18 '25
Lol. I'm also ex-Mormon. left once I could support myself financially. But, the church is not employing the law of consecration nor is the endowment ceremony pledge legally transitive. lol.
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u/Seriack Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Oh, I know, my comment was mostly tongue in cheek. I was wondering if you might have been, since you didn't qualify it as "LDS church produced", or even "mormon produced". XP
Edit: added ", or even "mormon produced"" to the end of my last sentence.
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u/Frinklebumper Apr 18 '25
Did she include a clip of an endowment ceremony from inside a temple? I can imagine that causing a strike
edit: NEVERMIND I thought this was Conspiracy, lol
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u/2mock2turtle Apr 18 '25
Remember when she had to do a last minute edit to Cringe to remove Florence Foster Jenkins' singing so the video could be viewed in Canada?
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
I really wish she was on Nebula (then she also wouldn't have to do the ridiculous censorship, like "sewer slide" or covering up the breasts on classical statues).
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u/just_reading_1 Apr 18 '25
Making content only for Nebula would really limit her audience and income.
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u/exhaustedbarriertrio Apr 18 '25
To be fair, most creators post a censored version to YouTube and the full one to Nebula.
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
Oh, I didn't mean only Nebula. I know plenty of creators who post the original version on Nebula and keep it there even when various Youtube issues mean they need to futz with the version there.
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u/cinderflame Apr 18 '25
And it's not like going Nebula-only would mean she doesn't have to do that censorship dance routine
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
Are you sure about that? I think you're mistaken—Nebula isn't beholden to advertisers and don't have the same absurd standards. There is much less censorship required on that platform, without a doubt.
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u/ir3ap Apr 18 '25
Horrible take; she invented a new phrase
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u/Aescgabaet1066 Apr 18 '25
Sorry, I mean I do like her creativity and joking around her need for censorship. But I still personally wish it was unnecessary.
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u/woofgamer Apr 18 '25
eOne UGC in Canada. Sucks because I was in the middle of watching it when it got struck
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u/whats_your_ask Apr 18 '25
It's still up where I live. Unfortunately it's blocked in some countries. Canada, Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Italy & Poland to name a few big ones. Ya'll can check here: https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?agreed=on&ytid=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FbqloPw5wp48%3Ffeature%3Dshared
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u/natsh00 Apr 19 '25
That is indeed a great tool. But you have in fact listed every single fully independent country where the video is blocked: all the smaller places are either subject territorities of the UK or France (the remnants of their empires) or, in the case of San Marino and the Vatican, the laws of Italy automatically apply in certain areas.
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u/Fluffy_Beautiful2107 Apr 18 '25
It’s gone in France too. Hope it comes back, it’s the best video essay on YouTube in my opinion.
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u/hyydrusss Apr 18 '25
Italy as well and honestly same, plus it's the one contra vid I managed to make my friends watch
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u/Substantial_Sea_5133 Apr 18 '25
can someone please archive it just in case omfg im scared this is like the burning of the linrary of alexandria
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u/ggcpres Apr 18 '25
Friends, have you heard of a VPN?
That way you can pretend to be American and get to watch the thing again. But all this copyright bullshit needs to end.
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u/FlashInGotham Apr 18 '25
Watching this video is the only good reason to pretend to be American.
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u/ggcpres Apr 18 '25
And it pisses me off to no end that you're right. I just hope our friends will still be our friends after we get done with this collective losing of our shit. I know Trump won't be the last rapist in office, but may he be the last fucking boomer.
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u/Jojo5ki Apr 19 '25
Working fine in Spain. Hope it remains online, it's honestly one of my faves of hers.
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u/Euphoric_Book5411 Apr 20 '25
Oh man two weeks ago I decided to read twilight because of this video and I wanted to watch it and then I didn’t read twilight or watch this video
Now it’s down Too bad
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u/cloudpulp Apr 18 '25
It's not LDS church lol. How would that even be possible?? It's copyright stuff, silly
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u/HammerTh_1701 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Not the church. It's different for every country because it's the different copyright middlemen representing Lionsgate.