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I’m sure you guys are benefiting from YouTube. !
Boy you sure are cavalier about other people's ownership rights!
I can see you are experts in borrowing- amatuers in ethics.
YouTube should be striking deals with content OWNERS- too bad losers are posting clips thay have borrowed, er I mean STOLEN!
Seriously- you gotta get some perspective here! We are talking about stealing!
Except for a select few Avex Trax artists like old (ancient!) Ayumi, entertainers are hardworking day-to-day content creators, and the shows they work on pick up and dump them for competitive wages. Superstars in Japan are nowhere near superstars in Hollywood, to say nothing of the behind-the-scenes workers. So yeah, they have a lot to worry about when people can skip their 15-minute twice-a-week broadcast and grab it up on Youtube.
Of course we are talking about Japan, which is a flagrant copyright-abuse nation that enjoys a very, very healthy CD rental industry that is aware of and tailored to accomodate the music-theft movement. Japan also is a movie rental culture first and a film appreciation culture second. Go to any conbini or manga shop and you will find magazines telling you explicitly how to rip DVDs and download and keep dailymotion, youtube and google videos.
I do think JASRAC and others will lose this fight, the further they take it. Youtube may be honouring negotiations right now, but ultimately its Japanese user base is all copyright-infringers, not bedroom vloggers, and it wouldn't suffer much from just saying "no Japanese IPs, sorry!" or letting the Japan branch create its own much more restrictive sign-up and conten management system.
Many of these excellent small blog sites about Japan like Japanprobe, Japansugoi, Tokyo Mango and thousands of hosted blog sites on Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad feature Japanese content from youtube embedded videos. The source of all the videos is youtube and they gotta find a way to balance what internet users want, what the copyright owners want, and how they split any revenues.
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