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YouTube Forced to Delete 30,000 Clips

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

October 20, 2006, 11:30 AM

A group of Japanese content providers has been successful in getting YouTube to remove some 29,549 clips that it claimed were posted without permission, it said Friday. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers represents 23 media companies in the country. The group is also calling on the video sharing site to better screen what its users are posting.

In addition to pushing for more stringent oversight, the group also called on the site's users to refrain from posting copyrighted material. YouTube serves more than 100 million videos per day, and content providers have become increasingly vocal in attempting to push the service to better control what its users are posting.

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By gotpasses

edited Dec 22, 2006 - 10:50 PM

Got the links? Deleted videos still exist.
I repeat, DELETED VIDEOS STILL EXIST ON YOUTUBE SERVERS!
Don't belive me? Check this then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1XgE_c9jyw
That link comes back as removed right?
We'll see about that. Let's check the thumbnails next:
http://sjl-static10.sjl.youtube.com/vi/v1XgE_c9jyw/0.jpg
http://sjl-static10.sjl.youtube.com/vi/v1XgE_c9jyw/1.jpg
http://sjl-static10.sjl.youtube.com/vi/v1XgE_c9jyw/2.jpg
http://sjl-static10.sjl.youtube.com/vi/v1XgE_c9jyw/3.jpg
Thumbnails still work. Now let's download the video for it:
http://ash-v126.ash.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=v1XgE_c9jyw
Yes, I've found that YouTube videos are still online.
Private videos, self removed videos, TOS violations, all of them.

gotpasses
gotpasses@yahoo.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/gotpasses

send me a deleted video link you want and I'll post the file link.

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By wincement

edited Oct 22, 2006 - 1:42 AM

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By twosheds

posted Oct 21, 2006 - 11:34 AM

This has nothing to do with the post and you are putting the link everywhere. Stop using these forums for self-publicity.

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By PSXp-ONE

posted Oct 21, 2006 - 2:16 AM

IFILM.com is the place to go.

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By hesh

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 2:09 PM

Probably clips of all the crazy gameshows they have over there. And Hard Gay.

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By The Man

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 1:17 PM

people are sharing pictures and personal clips of stuff they're interested in?
OMG
just think of how many people are dying from this epidemic.
we must stop people from sharing what they see or hear before the world comes to an end!
:-p

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By PC_Tool

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 1:57 PM

Ya gotta wonder.

They don't mention what was pulled, ut based on what I've seen of Youtube, it likely wasn't full eps and such.

Also: Aren't "clips" considered by most law abiding folks as falling under the protection (such as it is) of Fair Use?

It's working great for LOST websites. Miss a specific scene or effect? Someone will post that scene on Youtube. Guaranteed. It was funny. The first 10 minutes of Season 3 episode 1 appeared within moments of it airing.

I suppose that's patly ABC's fault, actually, they hyped "the first 5 minutes" so much.. If ya missed it, you'd be, uh...lost. ;)

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By IceyKola

posted Oct 23, 2006 - 1:52 PM

If the Japanese were pushing for it, you can assume that they were probably full episodes of Anime shows. My friends watch full episodes of subtitled Anime on YouTube all the time, because they don't want to wait to find out what happens on the dubbed american versions.

Also, the other day. I was trying to watch the new episode of South Park but every other clip I tried said it was removed for copyright infringment.

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By imafurby

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 1:05 PM

They're lucky it wasn't a Tsunami of lawsuits demanding cash.

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By jbaltz69

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 3:18 PM

It's because they were just bought by Google who have an army of lawyers and billions of dollars in cash for such things.

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By imafurby

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 8:04 PM

Which is my point..

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By Xavier X PHD

edited Oct 20, 2006 - 12:36 PM

It's not like the Japs have anything worth viewing anyways. People are too sue happy these days. F'in douches.

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By Skyfrog

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 2:12 PM

Thanks for sharing your derogatory comments Archie Bunker.

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By yizuman

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 12:27 PM

Just what the heck were the Japanese asking YouTube to remove??

A bunch of Yatta clips???

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By sjc001

edited Oct 20, 2006 - 8:09 PM

Maybe it was clips of Hentai? They may not want outsiders to know just how much they are into kiddie porn, and incest in Japan?

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By darkzero63

posted Oct 20, 2006 - 12:32 PM

More than likely japanese anime, porn and clips of the nintendo wii.

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