+        # Log in
+        login_form_strs = {
+            'email': username,
+            'password': password,
+            'done': 'video',
+            'Submit': ' Login ',
+        }
+
+        # Convert to UTF-8 *before* urlencode because Python 2.x's urlencode
+        # chokes on unicode
+        login_form = dict((k.encode('utf-8'), v.encode('utf-8')) for k, v in login_form_strs.items())
+        login_data = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(login_form).encode('utf-8')
+        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(
+            'https://secure.id.fc2.com/index.php?mode=login&switch_language=en', login_data)
+
+        login_results = self._download_webpage(request, None, note='Logging in', errnote='Unable to log in')
+        if 'mode=redirect&login=done' not in login_results:
+            self.report_warning('unable to log in: bad username or password')
+            return False
+
+        # this is also needed
+        login_redir = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://id.fc2.com/?mode=redirect&login=done')
+        self._download_webpage(
+            login_redir, None, note='Login redirect', errnote='Login redirect failed')
+
+        return True
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        self._login()