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Digital carpet-bombing the result of rights holder's petition

After being purchased for $1.65 billion by Google, video sharing megasite YouTube has come under increased fire from copyright holders. In the first mass deletion of videos, YouTube has removed nearly thirty thousand videos that were deemed to be infringing on copyrights held by various Japanese rights-holders.

The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) reported that 23 of their members had contacted YouTube for the removal of movies, music videos, and television shows.

YouTube has butted heads with copyright holders before, both on good and bad terms, but this is the first time that videos have been deleted in such a large number. YouTube is currently protected by the DMCA's Safe Harbour laws in the United States, under a similar umbrella that protects bulletin board operators from the content of messages posted by their user base.

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Oh no...
By 05SilverGT on 10/20/2006 2:58:30 PM , Rating: 5
Thousands of bukkake videos lost...lol

In all honesty though You Tube does push the limits in terms of copyright violation. However the holders of those copyrights are getting lots of free advertising so it's a toss up.




RE: Oh no...
By BladeVenom on 10/20/2006 7:46:35 PM , Rating: 2
They'll keep cumming back.


RE: Oh no...
By tuteja1986 on 10/20/2006 11:21:17 PM , Rating: 2
75% were anime :) lol

They had nearly every single Gundam series on you tube.


RE: Oh no...
By Josh7289 on 10/22/2006 3:36:00 PM , Rating: 2
Finally. Die, illegal anime!


RE: Oh no...
By Aikouka on 10/23/2006 8:23:12 AM , Rating: 2
You can keep your dubbed anime then :P.


there he goes
By Wwhat on 10/20/2006 6:57:31 PM , Rating: 3
As predicted the demise of youtube is starting.




RE: there he goes
By Xavian on 10/20/2006 11:26:20 PM , Rating: 2
indeed, watch as youtube becomes a husk of its former self, google looses a lot of money, people move onto another site thats less strict.

As soon as google took over youtube, i knew this would not end well.


RE: there he goes
By Wwhat on 10/21/2006 8:46:01 AM , Rating: 2
There was a change it would not go this way, but seeing that to remove so many vid they didn't ask for information on each vid like youtube used to but actively cataloged and searched themselves and thereby set a precedent this means any old copyright notice on a vid will remove 100K more of them until nothing is left worth watching.


RE: there he goes
By Wwhat on 10/21/2006 8:46:39 AM , Rating: 2
chance* (classic mistake)


Something is awry with Youtube...
By therealnickdanger on 10/20/06, Rating: 0
RE: Something is awry with Youtube...
By michal1980 on 10/20/06, Rating: -1
RE: Something is awry with Youtube...
By Wwhat on 10/21/2006 8:42:57 AM , Rating: 2
Oh soldiers are defending google from terrorist now? what soldiers and what terrorist exactly? You better not be talking about iraq buddy, unless you are completely dumbwitted, and I have a sneaking feeling you are.

And another question, when did google supposedly have to 'stand up for the rights' of soldiers? what are you refering to?


RE: Something is awry with Youtube...
By rivers on 10/20/2006 9:52:08 PM , Rating: 3
quote:
I'm not going to get all conspiracy theory here, but I am suspect of Google's motives...


Well, then it's curious why Google is a Big Censor Supporter, for example in China. Don't call Google a leftist company, they're just opportunists.


By Gooberslot on 10/20/2006 11:06:10 PM , Rating: 2
I definitely wouldn't put it past Google.


YouTube
By Discordless on 10/21/2006 11:25:31 PM , Rating: 3
If they remove all the stuff that that breaks copyrights .. well .. I dont think half of what is up there will still be available :D




When will they learn...
By Aikouka on 10/20/2006 3:01:05 PM , Rating: 2
Good, maybe now people can learn to download anime normally instead of YouTubing it :P. I'd believe that anime is most likely a decent portion of the Japanese media that was removed, as I know you could find full-length episodes from many different fansubbed series on YouTube.

I actually sighed the other day when my mom kept ranting over this "funny" video she found on YouTube involving cats. Think ya'd just watch Animal Planet's America's Funniest Animals :P.

Also, it isn't YouTube's (or any other video provider's) fault, but it's quite annoying when people send me links to those sites, as Nero completely destroyed my sound capabilities in Windows when I uninstalled it (piece of garbage froze and locked up BOTH of my optical drives). So now I have no more audio in Flash or Windows sound control :(. Such a bummer. Watching that 2009 Nissan GT-R spy video without the sexy sound of the engine was disappointing... 'cause at least I can KeepVid the Google Video or YouTube videos.

Okay, I'm done ranting... I swear!




crap
By Gooberslot on 10/20/2006 11:03:01 PM , Rating: 2
They removed some of the ones I like. The thing is these particular ones might have been protected under fair use (parody).




What next?
By crystal clear on 10/21/2006 9:44:09 AM , Rating: 2
"YouTube Removes 29,549 Japanese Videos Infringing on Copyrights"

This will set the precedent for other countries to demand the same from YouTube-Infringing on copyrights.

In short a run down version of YouTube-This will give the birth of mirror sites of the original version of YouTube.




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