Japanese Broadcasters don’t like YouTube
By Shay • Oct 21st, 2006 • Category: Japan, TV, internet, newsFollowing a request by such Japanese broadcasters as NHK, mega-popular streaming video site YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos from it’s archives.
This comes as expected considering YouTube’s policy: uploaded videos that violate copyright laws are not deemed illegal if they’re deleted upon request from the copyright holder. That is exactly what YouTube did in adhering to US law.
Upon hearing about this story I was a little dissapointed. I consider sites such as YouTube to be a great source for non-Japanese entertainment fans to view Japanese TV shows and other videos that they could never see otherwise. But, that is not at all the reason behind 23 businesses, including NHK’s requests.
An interesting statistic points out that a larger percentage of Japanese internet users visit YouTube than American internet users. Net Ratings explains that 9.68% of Japanese net-users visit the primarily English-language site, as opposed to 8.83% of Americans.
Removal requests in the name of copyright violations should be expected and surely make sense. If there were Japanese videos but nearly no Japanese users, broadcasters from Japan may not care.
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As far as I can tell, no broadcasters like youtube!!
But all other companies seem to love it as a promotional tool.
Yeah, it works good as a promo tool…NBC has a lot of stuff on YouTube and now I’ve even seen politicians’ profiles w/ campaign ads and stuff.
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