Birching in Moll Flanders

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-8lmVx5lr0&t=580s

Poor girl is birched (no nudity) for stabbing (in the hand, with knitting needles) a priest who tried to molest her; she's called a liar.

Apparently the video is blocked I. the US.

"Video unavailable

This video contains content from mgm, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"

@Rigel use a VPN to bypass your IP address. Windscribe is such a program for free, or small fee if you want unlimited use

IP addresses mean absolutely bugger all. Anyone can use a public computer in an Internet cafe that is used by hundreds of people.

@Andrew_Finklehouse The IP address will however tell YouTube from which country you connect. Using certain kinds of VPN allow you to appear to connect from other countries, and thus circumvent region blocking.

Why do they have region blocking anyway? It's like banning people of a certain nationality from one's own country, so it's on a par with racism.

@Andrew_Finklehouse Many movies at TV series are released on different schedules in different countries ; or a television channel bought the rights to broadcast it in one country but not another. Typically, for instance, the BBC will refuse to show content to viewers outside the UK, because it has not bought the rights to do so.

Here, apparently YouTube got a copyright order not to show certain content to viewers from the US.

How can we get them to "buy the rights", or better still, do away with any law that states they have to "buy the rights"? Please give positive answers to that question, not "We can't".