YouTube Removes 29,549 Japanese Videos

[emperor]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[ttjereth]

Not really surprising. Google video is a lot stricter about what gets posted and now since google has acquired YouTube I imagine they'll follow suit.

We need a nice video site based in Sweden or one of those other lax copyright law countries.

[Big Booger]

Youtube? It's over.

[ichigo partygirl]

Youtube? It's over.

Yeap i have to agree.
The moment google brought then was the beginning of the end.
They went from being free-range to tied up with so many big companies who have big legal teams......quite sad really.

[nullpointer]

The moment google brought then was the beginning of the end.

Youtube has been removing videos on the request of the original publishers for a long time. Google's purchase has nothing to do with it other than the fact that now it has become news. Nothing new really.

[Big Booger]

Youtube has been removing videos on the request of the original publishers for a long time. Google's purchase has nothing to do with it other than the fact that now it has become news. Nothing new really.

Ahh but the youtube crew are not nearly as good as google is at removing content. (compare Google video to youtube for illegal content)

[ttjereth]

Google actually checks the videos when they are uploaded is why. Uploading a video to google takes forever for it to get approved. Youtube is nearly instantaneous.

[GomiGirl]

Damn - imagine that as a boring job - checking all the videos as they are coming in - damn - how many cat videos before you go stark raving looney?

[IkemenTommy]

Damn - imagine that as a boring job - checking all the videos as they are coming in - damn - how many cat videos before you go stark raving looney?

Maybe Google is developing a software algorythm that flags certain images as obscene or copyrighted material. Like automatically filters the material if there is too much pink. I dont know.

YouTube without porn or J tv material is completely useless and not worth my time browsing anymore. Google really slaughtered them. RIP.

[Buraku]

Maybe Google is developing a software algorythm that flags certain images as obscene or copyrighted material. Like automatically filters the material if there is too much pink. I dont know.

YouTube without porn or J tv material is completely useless and not worth my time browsing anymore. Google really slaughtered them. RIP.

good riddance to all that hentai tentacle porn shit, a fucking otaku pervs fanasty come true


If you need to find a normal video, there are plenty of other engines out there
http://www.blinkx.com/results?query=ishihara
http://www.altavista.com/video
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/ringu/video/xhg2h_ring0001
http://video.msn.com

[DomoKat]

They took down the "One Point English Lesson"

[Mr Doricar]

At least this old chestnut is still online

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[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Japanese group asks YouTube for system to prevent upload of copyrighted works

A Japanese entertainment group has asked the popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. to implement a system to prevent users from uploading videos that would infringe copyrights, a group spokesman said Tuesday. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers sent a letter making the request addressed to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen by express mail and e-mail on behalf of 23 Japanese TV stations and entertainment companies, according to Takashi Fujii, a spokesman for the Jasrac group. Most videos posted on YouTube are homemade, but the site also features copyrighted material posted by individual users. YouTube's policy has been to remove clips that infringe copyright after it receives complaints, but questions have continued to linger about the site's vulnerability to legal claims for distributing content owned by other media...more...

[GuyJean]

Google's Copyright Fix
Barely two months ago pundits were predicting a litigation explosion for Google and its new YouTube video-sharing unit. But look what's happening instead.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/08/magazines/business2/youtube_piracy.biz2/index.htm?section=money_latest

..The strongest evidence: An experimental "brand channel" YouTube launched in mid-October for CBS (Charts) in the hopes that it would become the model for other old media partnerships. The press mostly ignored the deal's announcement at the time, most likely because it fell on the same day that Google bought YouTube.

It's worth circling back now. As part of the deal, CBS agreed to offer free video clips for downloading. In return, the media company gets to sniff around YouTube for any content bearing its copyright. CBS can then choose between removing the offending clips or getting a cut of the revenue YouTube generates from any advertising linked to the clip.

The result? By Thanksgiving, CBS had uploaded 300 clips that caught the attention of nearly 30 million pairs of eyeballs. More than 35,000 consumers have subscribed to the free channel. More importantly, the shows that CBS was pushing online suddenly became bigger hits on regular old television too.

Take David Letterman. The late-night talk show host gained an extra 200,000 viewers shortly after his YouTube debut. Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show, saw his audience increase by seven percent - all in a little over a month.

Given that the month was November, a "sweeps" month in which audience ratings determine how much a network charges for ads until May, YouTube gave CBS an early holiday gift. CBS, with a strong overall lineup, finished the month as the most watched network among all age groups and tied for second in the most coveted demographic, 18 to 49 year-olds...

GJ

[Mulboyne]

ComputerWorld: YouTube response to Japan complaints 'not satisfactory'

A group of Japanese content producers that asked YouTube Inc. to act on the large amount of copyrighted material on the popular site say a response received from the company was unsatisfactory. The group, which includes all of Japan's major TV broadcasters and several associations that represent copyright holders, complained to YouTube in early December and made several requests regarding the way complaints from rights holders are handled and the way users are warned and penalized for uploading copyrighted material.

At a meeting in Tokyo last Friday the group discussed YouTube's response, the details of which have not been made public. "We appreciate that they responded by the deadline but consider the response not satisfactory," said Satoshi Watanabe, manager of the transmission rights department at the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers. JASRAC sent the letter on behalf of the other companies and associations.

He said that while YouTube appears sympathetic to their complaints no changes have been made to the way the site operates. "As a preventative measure we asked them to display a notice in Japanese warning about uploading copyrighted material," said Watanabe. "They said it's possible but gave no specific date as to when they will do this and as of today there is no information"...more...

[American Oyaji]

Basically, in a nutshell, they want an arrangement where they can get some money out of the deal but dont have the balls to ask for their cut.

[IkemenTommy]

Basically, in a nutshell, they want an arrangement where they can get some money out of the deal but dont have the balls to ask for their cut.

Of course, it's just like the situation with free downloading of copyrighted music. If YouTube started charging people like they did with Napster, then the whole concept of being able to download free video will go to shit.

[emperor]

Fark: Japan not happy with YouTube's response to their demands to remove videos, hires law offices of Rodan, Godzilla and Gamera

[GuyJean]

YouTube to Share Revenue With Users
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-world-forum-youtube,0,6233391.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that his wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.

Hurley said one of the major proposed innovations is a way to allow users to be paid for content. YouTube, which was sold to Google for $1.65 billion in November, has become an Internet phenomenon since it began to catch on in late 2005. Some 70 million videos are viewed on the site each day.

"We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users," Hurley said. "So in the coming months we are going to be opening that up."..

GJ