Original RickRoll Video Blocked by

It appears that the popular video-sharing website, , has blocked access to a seven years old RickRoll video, preventing users from hearing the still-popular 'Never Gonna Give You Up' line. The video itself was uploaded by user 'cotter548' and was simply titled 'RickRoll'D' and had nearly 71 million views, having blocking it in several countries, including the US. did not comment immediately on the reason for blocking the video, which takes us to another similar but brief incident in 2012. Astley himself did not comment on the service's action as well, but given that he did not write

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