CHRIS:
hehe.. i’m grinning reading your comment. yeah i understand that. very well. and yes, i don’t like youtube since long time ago. the management of youtube itself. btw, i also know about those Japanese media stations hate youtube. And frankly, i also know the risk and already well-prepared for any action for uploading those.. hehe, but i don’t expect my account to be suspended so early.

Other site like Crackle.com still give many chance and sent fast report to account holder if any unapproved clip being upload by giving full detailed reason why the clip being removed.

Of course any site won’t be popular (like Nicos) if we’ve to pay for watching or downloading the videos. no fun at all. instead of paying.. i’ll prefer donation. for that, people will be happy and willing to help promoting the site

anyway.. to those people out there who couldn’t watch my videos at youtube.. thousand apologize from me. i’ll find a solution for this. hontou ni, i’m only sharing with friends in private. but, people like you keep encouraging me to spread it with public.

Don’t like YouTube?

Due to its popularity, it is becoming a rather uncool place. It’s a lot like Wikipedia, when it first started YouTube was a lot of fun because it was new and you could find a lot of video clips that you couldn’t find anywhere else.

Now, all of the big corporations are starting to muscle in on YouTube since it is so popular. This is just one of the inevitable side effects ever since the creators of YouTube sold out to Google. Personally, I feel that Google is the new Microsoft – the computer company that everyone loves to hate.

What could be going on with the video that you posted onto YouTube was part of the compromise that was announced last week, or very recently, between YouTube Japan and several copyright holders in the Japanese entertainment industry. It’s sad, but true. The Japanese entertainment industry, as far as I can tell, hates YouTube. Fuji TV, TBS, NHK, and the other major TV stations should actually try to find a way to co-exist with YouTube in my opinion. However, no one in Japan wants to take the risk of developing a new model and have it fail. From what I can tell, everything you have heard about Japanese companies being resistant to change is entirely true. This is a very good example.

If only Takafumi Horie had successfully taken over Fuji TV and thrown out all of those old men who run the TV station!!! Love him or hate him, Horie was correct: Japan needs new business models.

On a side note, I recently read another article about a Japanese website, called Nicos (?), in which you pay money to watch videos. Apparently, it’s not too popular. Go figure.