Comments on: Japanese group not pleased with YouTube's copyright plans

Japanese film, music and TV companies say Google isn't doing enough to protect copyright.

[DraconumPB]

It's probably the anime...

Of course, it'd be a shame if anime disappeared off of YouTube, because many of those are unavailible in the US...

It really ticks me off when content is not delivered worldwide, is difficult to import, and then you're expected not to pirate it... and even when it is availible, it's quite expensive ( To buy a 'season's worth of anime, which may be the entire series, costs about $100 oftentimes wheras a US sitcom is maybe $30-40 for the same number of episodes).

[kickert]

justification

And we all know that cost is a perfect justification for piracy. I mean I would love a Hummer H2, but we all know those are too expensive for most people to buy. How can anyone expect people to not steal Hummer H2.

hmm.... that logic doesn't seem to work for me.

[perfectblue97]

$100 is nothing

Be glad that you live in the US, if you lived in another English speaking country (aside from Canada, that is), you'd be paying much more that $100, and you'd be getting it up to 2 years late.

Australia, New Zealand and Britain get a much worse deal. Often Anime shows never even ship there and they have to buy in from America just to see things that were out in Japan maybe 4 years ago.