Japanese Entertainers Against YouTube

Have you been searching for those funny Japanese YouTube videos people were talking about, only to find that they're "no longer available"? On Monday, YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley got an express mail letter from a Japanese entertainment group. The letter made a simple request: create a system on YouTube that would prevent users from uploading copyrighted videos. The letter follows the removal of 30,000 Japanese videos in November after the group complained of copyright infringement and was signed by 23 TV major stations and entertainment groups. We'll see how Googly YouTube tackles this problem, but in the meantime, if you want to watch Japanese people flying off toilets and eating until they gain 5kg in an hour, you'll have to go to a video rental shop.