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I was just noticing that a good portion if not ALL of the Japanese music video and television clips that I've bookmarked from YouTube have been taken down due to copyright violations, if you want to use such heavy worded language, when I noticed this article....
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/10/youtube_deletes_30000_japanese.php
It's completely ignorant--- and it serves no real purpose. This is another example of companies, and not surprising that they are Japanese entertainment companies, which do not "get it"... This is not dissimilar to Saturday Night Live pulling all of its content from the internet, lest someone not purchase one of the DVDs. At a time when the "Lazy Sunday" video made YouTube one of the most popular sites on the internet, and a more popular site than Google Video, SNL decided that it would be in its best interest to keep people from ever knowing again why they should bother to turn the televison on in the first place.
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/10/youtube_deletes_30000_japanese.php
The files are mostly entertainment and music TV programs and were discovered during a five-day audit of the site that started October 2, Oikawa said.
The 23 companies that backed JASRAC include all of Japan's major TV networks, public broadcaster Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), some regional and cable TV broadcasters, and other organizations including the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) and Yahoo Japan.
It's not the first time YouTube has been in the cross hairs of Japanese broadcasters. Earlier this year NHK asked the site to remove a clip of a children's song and said it would go after other files on the site.
YouTube has a lot of Japanese TV clips compared to those of other nations because of the strong cult following that Japanese pop culture has around the world.
It's completely ignorant--- and it serves no real purpose. This is another example of companies, and not surprising that they are Japanese entertainment companies, which do not "get it"... This is not dissimilar to Saturday Night Live pulling all of its content from the internet, lest someone not purchase one of the DVDs. At a time when the "Lazy Sunday" video made YouTube one of the most popular sites on the internet, and a more popular site than Google Video, SNL decided that it would be in its best interest to keep people from ever knowing again why they should bother to turn the televison on in the first place.