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YOUTUBE - "Lawless Area For Japanese Contents" Date: 5/8/2006 |
| In recent weeks, figures on domestic (Japanese) viewership of the American videoshare site YOUTUBE have been all over the media. It's believed that more than 1/3 of all accesses to the site originating from Japanese IP's. With all the fanfare dying down that an all English Language site could draw so many Japanese, the media has turned an eye toward the content that can be found there. IT MEDIA weighs in with a heavy sentiment that can be seen in the media now, describing the site as a "Lawless Area For Japanese Contents". To those not in the know, one could, in the past, find complete commercialy copyrighted anime series runs there. Many in the Japanese press seem to be calling for heavier regulation of copyrighted, illegal content by the managers of YOUTUBE. Cases such as a recent one involving Advent Children being uploaded to Google Video and one where NBC requested their content be removed from the site are mentioned in the piece. The NBC case YOUTUBE complied. ITMEDIA wonders if it will only take the correctly placed persons and requests from Japanese companies to have some result. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
