Think Google has made out like bandits since its acquired YouTube? You might just want to reconsider that smarm.
In what is likely to be the first of many deletions retractions removals, YouTube has caved to pressure from a Japanese conglomerate of media interests, and have removed as many as 30 000 videos in violation of international copyright law.
That’s right. If you can’t get enough of crazy Japanese gameshows, you may just have to look for it elsewhere.
While many American companies have cut deals with YouTube, it looks like the higher ups at Google have folded like a cheap suit under the threat of litigation. If this is all it takes for videos to get removed, one wonders how long it will take before we see a more sanitized, neutered version of its racous self.
And once that happens, how long before its cachet runs out then?
October 20th, 2006 at 3:42 pm | Permalink
Those gameshows were one of the first few vidoes that were sent to me as forwards. You can’t get that kind of programming on US television. What a loss.
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:19 am | Permalink
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April 8th, 2007 at 11:41 pm | Permalink
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