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And so it begins....

BBC NEWS | Business | YouTube cuts 30,000 illegal clips:



YouTube users now watch more than 100m clips per day
Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed.
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers found 29,549 music video, movie and TV clips had been posted without permission.

YouTube was recently bought by search giant Google for $1.65bn (£883m).

Critics of the deal have warned that Google could face a barrage of lawsuits over copyrighted material on YouTube. Launched in February 2005, YouTube shows about 100 million clips per day.

YouTube mostly hosts homemade videos, but it also contains clips of copyrighted

Posted by mikki on October 20, 2006 10:39 AM |

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