Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed.
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers found 29,549 music video, movie and TV clips had been posted without permission.
YouTube was recently bought by search giant Google for $1.65bn (£883m).
Critics of the deal have warned that Google could face a barrage of lawsuits over copyrighted material on YouTube.
Distribution
Launched in February 2005, YouTube shows about 100 million clips per day.
YouTube mostly hosts homemade videos, but it also contains clips of copyrighted material.
A spokesman for the Japanese group said it was considering asking YouTube to introduce a preliminary screening process to stop illegal video files being placed on the site.
YouTube has recently signed distribution deals with media groups including Universal Music Group, Warner Music and CBS to offer short-form programming including news, music videos, sport and entertainment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6069692.stm
Full Version: YouTube cuts 30,000 illegal clips
bye bye youtube..... 
No more Hardo Gay as well. 
barely use youtube myself...only for music videos and random funny clips
Oh no
yup all my favorite japanese pvs are gone
those bastards 
not the jrock pvs
not the jrock pvs
lol,i remember theres whole episode of samurai champloo
Gosh that suck.. now where do i go for Anime .....
now where do i go for Anime .....
rofl dl it via irc or bt?>
they took down alot of the Dragonballs eps =(
They don't show porn anyway so no loss for me. 
QUOTE(ChangGang @ Oct 22 2006, 02:11 AM) 
They don't show porn anyway so no loss for me.
have you tried pornotube? It was a very promising idea but people decided to spam the site with gay porn videos. Its so gay lol
QUOTE(SagaciousLuDa @ Oct 21 2006, 10:08 PM)
they took down alot of the Dragonballs eps =(
At least the movies are still up.
exactly
booo i wanna see the ep where goku fights piccolo in budokai tourney
oooo my goose! what the F! why oh why! oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!
30k illegal clip is ony japanese or wat????
I'm glad they removed em somewhat.
It pissed me off to no end that they removed the Family Guy and American Dad episodes but kept the fu-king English dubbed Inuyasha episodes. fu-king Japanophiles.
It pissed me off to no end that they removed the Family Guy and American Dad episodes but kept the fu-king English dubbed Inuyasha episodes. fu-king Japanophiles.
now i understand why i can't find the rest of the episodes of escaflowne... bad youtube, bad!!! 
what the hell is the point of youtube if you can't see illegal clips.
QUOTE(AgentBach @ Oct 24 2006, 08:16 AM)
what the hell is the point of youtube if you can't see illegal clips.
I better hurry up and watch whatever anime I can. Youtube was where I watched all Naruto episodes, too.
I'm surprise only 30,000. There are soooo many anime episodes, and complete movies up there. I started uploading music videos myself, and 4 of them was taken down.
I never upload anything on youtube only one when i upload something i don't remember anymore it's long tiem ago but it got deleted by someone...
Just use netflix to borrow unlimited Anmie Dvds like 20$ a month at 3 at a time then copy them using Clone DVD or Any DVD... only if you wanted hi res anime
QUOTE(AgentBach @ Oct 24 2006, 07:16 AM)
what the hell is the point of youtube if you can't see illegal clips.
exactly , now someone needs to make a new website.
utoobe 
funny
QUOTE(AgentBach @ Oct 24 2006, 05:16 AM)
what the hell is the point of youtube if you can't see illegal clips.
That is exactly why Google Video is a failure.
is Naruto saved???
I knew YouTube is going to start sucking as soon as Google takes over..
anybody know if they goin to take down Naruto down too or wat??? i jus hope they wont take it down in youtube.....
QUOTE(kunomchu @ Oct 21 2006, 11:13 PM)
have you tried pornotube? It was a very promising idea but people decided to spam the site with gay porn videos. Its so gay lol
Too bad that is a literal term
QUOTE(kunomchu @ Oct 21 2006, 03:47 AM)
Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed.
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers found 29,549 music video, movie and TV clips had been posted without permission.
YouTube was recently bought by search giant Google for $1.65bn (£883m).
Critics of the deal have warned that Google could face a barrage of lawsuits over copyrighted material on YouTube.
Distribution
Launched in February 2005, YouTube shows about 100 million clips per day.
YouTube mostly hosts homemade videos, but it also contains clips of copyrighted material.
A spokesman for the Japanese group said it was considering asking YouTube to introduce a preliminary screening process to stop illegal video files being placed on the site.
YouTube has recently signed distribution deals with media groups including Universal Music Group, Warner Music and CBS to offer short-form programming including news, music videos, sport and entertainment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6069692.stm
who cares? otaku are all Japanphile f a g s with no lives anyway who will never ever have sex, with another human at least.
Oh no 
like whoa someone got issues
lol my previous account got banned from too many music videos uploaded.. SUX!
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