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Funkatron
10-20-2006, 10:17 AM
Hopefully, this topic isn't forbidden. Mods, do your thing if it is.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-10-20T101325Z_01_T165986_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-JAPAN-YOUTUBE.XML

I'm assuming a lot of these are anime and Toku. Didn't realise Japanese Copyright applies to Youtube as well.
William C. Maune
10-20-2006, 10:19 AM
Hopefully, this topic isn't forbidden. Mods, do your thing if it is.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-10-20T101325Z_01_T165986_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-JAPAN-YOUTUBE.XML

I'm assuming a lot of these are anime and Toku. Didn't realise Japanese Copyright applies to Youtube as well.

Copyright generally applies internationally as most countries respect each others copyright laws to an extent. Basically, if something is protected by copyright in Japan or the U.S., you don't have a right to do what you want with it just because you live in the other country.
Karl Olson
10-20-2006, 01:14 PM
Yeah, they were completely with rights to request that stuff be pulled, especially since Japanese users are not only not blocked from the site, they are allowed to contribute, resulting in a lot of bootleg content turning up and being watched by a Japanese audience.
Beat
10-20-2006, 01:35 PM
You can't keep this kind of material in a centralized location and not expect some sort of legal reprocussion. It's what killed Napster, and it'll kill Youtube.

At least Chad and Steve got away with a billion and a half before then. :)
Nin-Nin69
10-20-2006, 01:40 PM
Well as long as nobody touches Yu-Gi-Oh! TAS and Angry Nintendo Nerd, then You Tube can still go on. Then again ANN has his own site with other videos and the guy who does Yu-Gi-Oh! TAS could make up his own page. Yep You Tube is doomed to horrible AMV's, Video Blogs, and badly directed movies.
Beat
10-20-2006, 01:56 PM
Google's executive staff is going to wake up one day and wonder why no one's visiting the site they paid $1.5 billion for anymore, and everyone will have the same answer.

Copyrighted material. It's illegal, it's wrong, but it's also the only reason 9/10ths of people actually go there.
Nin-Nin69
10-20-2006, 02:33 PM
I though people just went to You Tube for awesome videos like these:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m5iXwXSuRU4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VkCdOKlgJgo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Nin-Nin69/emot-pwnonk.gif
Animeforever'04
10-20-2006, 05:18 PM
watches video dies!:ack: :ack:
Master Moron
10-20-2006, 08:39 PM
Don't they pull copyrighted videos all the time? And don't people just put up more?
Anarky
10-20-2006, 08:56 PM
i usually check out the AMVs
apparently, Rob Zombie's "Superbeast" and "Scum of the Earth" is a popular tune w/ the vidmakers
Tay the Cat
10-20-2006, 08:59 PM
Just as long as they don't take off the Monster Rancher episodes on there, I could care less what YouTube deletes.
SAMaine
10-20-2006, 11:09 PM
You forget how big Google is now. They have enough money to legally obtain videos to show.
Mr. Manager
10-20-2006, 11:14 PM
I wouldn't want them to take off some of the Japenese commercials. It's nice having Japenese commercials on there, such as that Schwartzenegger pizza commercial or those Jack Bauer energy drink commercials.
Scirel
10-21-2006, 12:50 AM
edit: just to be safe
Lord Dalek
10-21-2006, 01:15 AM
To rephrase an old chestnut: loose lips sink ships. You're only making the problem worse by making it more obvious.
Karl Olson
10-21-2006, 05:08 AM
Yeah, I think I'm closing this before anymore people chime in with the copyrighted content they'd like to see still illegally available.