YouTube forced to erase 30,000 video files
 

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Google's YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular Web site after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media companies over copyright infringement, an industry group said on Friday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS...eut/index.html

DH

Timeline? :)

Welcome to the wonderful world of "google bought you, now you have deep pockets, and now everyone is going to get their lawyers after you".

We can all remember this as they time that youtube stopped being cool.

Aren't there somewhere near 60K new videos placed on Youtube every day? Them having to remove 30K shouldn't be anything to worry about.

i knew it was going to happen...

if anything this will increase the press coverage in japan and boost up video submissions & traffic.

All of my good music videos that listen to every day are gone now grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

how will the world ever survive now LOL

59,925 of them are punks on skateboards

Im surprised that hasnt happened more

i wonder when the US companies will ask...

As long ass they don't mess with the Super Gay, Shooto, DEEP, and Pride vids I'll be ok lol

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WOW! Those are alot of videos.

The other 75 are clips from south park and "dick,fart, and boob jokes".

RIP YouTube, we barely knew ya.

I can't believe google even bought it without seeing how it did without copyright infringement. I guess they just wanted to get before anyone else did.