As predicted by many, YouTube has begun to delete copyrighted files beginning with 30,000 Japanese ones. Half of my favorites including natsukashii videos of Down Town Boogie Woogie Band have been removed. Dammit! It seems random so far but I’m sure eventually all my favorites will be gone. Personally, I don’t care much about looking at other people’s home movies. I liked YouTube because you could find rare footage of Japanese TV and anime that you can find anywhere else.
I knew the Google acquisition couldn’t be good for YouTube. Well, I can’t argue whether this is directly related to the Google acquisition or not but I imagine in the next few weeks we’ll be seeing more stories like this and then it’ll just take some litigation and YouTube will be done.
You can save video from YouTube using the Firefox extension VideoDownloader. That way you can keep your favorites.
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Now that Google own YouTube there’s someone with money to sue………….. Sad.
Patrick, thanks! I’ll try to save some of the other before they are gone.
Derek, maybe we can find something to sue them about!
I just want them to leave the Kishidan videos alone.