YOUTUBE BEGINS “COPYRIGHT CLEANSE 2006”

After Google acquired YouTube, it was rumored that the copyright violations rampant on the video-sharing site would quickly become more scrutinized. Today those rumors began to bear fruit, as the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers came down on YouTube for having 29,549 videos that violated their rights laws. YouTube quickly eliminated the videos, leaving one to scratch their head and ask, “Where are we going to get those fucked-up Japanese TV clips now?”