30,000 Japanese TV videos removed from YouTube due to Copyrights Infringement

A research from Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) claimed that YouTube was apparently serving as a storage medium to about 30,000 videos infringed with copyright.

YouTube came under fire from cable TV broadcasters, the NHK public broadcaster, the Recording Industry Association of Japan, and Yahoo Japan. Finally they had to bow down and delete those 30,000 videos. This must be the first major mass removal of content in its history of Video Sharing Site and might surely hurt Japanese YouTube lovers.