youtube deletes 30,000 Japanese vids
News going round that youtube is / has deleted almost 30,000 movies.
The online video site YouTube has deleted close to 30,000 files after complaints from an organization representing Japanese copyright holders, the organization said Friday.
The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC), which collects royalty payments for musicians, submitted a list to YouTube of 29,549 files that it judged infringed on the rights of 23 Japanese content companies, said Masato Oikawa, a spokesman for the organization in Tokyo.
You can read more in the YouTube Deletes 30K Files on Request by Japan article at CIO.
I don’t think this move is related to Google’s purchase of youtube, but with the Belgian case proceeding news like this should help their case. I was trying to imagine how tedious the job of trawling through all those videos would be. 30,000 videos. Searching through youtube, the deletions don’t seem to have made much of a dent on the availability of copyrighted Japanese material. A job up there with keeping Osaka people from diving into Dotoburi.
A lot of anime. A lot of bad eurobeat. And some funny stuff.
While it is still up there ?! I thought I would share a little Japanese comedy flashback with you - some Hard Gay with you. He isn’t actually that Hard, and I don’t think he is gay. But here is - ハードゲイ！
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