A coalition of Japanese television, music and film companies slammed YouTube on Thursday (August 2), saying that the online video sharing service was not doing enough to rid the site of cartoons and other clips that infringe on copyrights.
YouTube has been immensely popular in Japan, trumping rival Japanese video sharing sites. It launched a Japanese language version of the site in June to gain even more viewers, and to post warnings against uploading copyrighted materials in Japanese. Still, clips from Japanese TV and the music industry are rampant on YouTube.
I guessed the problem is not from Japanese users. The most uploaded copyright material from Japan is probably the anime; most of it with either English or Chinese subtitle… the Japanese themselves could watch those programs (anime) anytime and won’t bother to watch it online; it’s the foreigners that are causing headache.