If you’ve seen the image above before is prob­a­bly because you live in Ger­many and are also tired of fuck­ing GEMA.

Good ol Malte Götz is a 17 years old high school stu­dent, pro­gram­mer and web devel­oper from Ger­many. He has come up with an free addon for Fire­fox, ‘Prox­Tube’, which eas­ily unblocks all the videos in youtube that GEMA decided that you should not see. In his own words…

I was just annoyed time by time to find a solu­tion to watch a blocked video. Also, I don’t want to accept the deci­sion of the GEMA (Soci­ety for musi­cal per­form­ing and mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tion rights in Ger­many), which totally unrea­son­able demands on YouTube and against the opin­ion of most of their own mem­bers, that they can tell me what I can watch. I gladly pay for music but in my view, YouTube is much more a kind of plat­form where artists can pic­ture them­selves and pro­mote the pur­chase of the songs. Accord­ingly, I’ve worked on a solu­tion that should make it eas­ier, as well for a user that has no large back­ground knowl­edge, and also not unlaw­ful. The result is this addon.

Click on the face of Malte to donate and down­load ProxTube.