Beeb puts the lid on YouTube Top Gear freebies
Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2006 :: Filed under Europe & UK, US,
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Another one bites the dust
Auntie Beeb has joined the RIAA, MPAA and the rest in taking a more serious approach to copyright infringements. Since its inception last year, video portal YouTube has been chokka with contraband episodes of the full-fat UK version of Top Gear. It’s even popular in the US of A, despite the big-haired one’s constant Yankee bashing. But following a request from the BBC, YouTube has removed the vast majority of Top Gear clips…
Of course, those in the know will still be able to source episodes from the usual Bittorrent indexing websites, usenet groups and other filesharing platforms. But access to the latest Top Gear episode for UK and international fans alike will no longer be as simple as a quick search on YouTube.
While we’re on the subject of the insanely successful YouTube, take a moment to digest these incredible statistics. The site is growing as we speak, so the following is merely a snapshot, but the most recent figures indicate that YouTube is serving no less than 100 million videos a day to 20 million unique users, recently experienced 75 per cent growth in traffic in a single week and represents 60 per cent of all videos watched online in the US. Some estimates suggest the site burns $3 million a month on bandwidth fees alone. It is truly an explosive phenomenon. But one which may, just like Napster before it, be brought to its knees by America’s litigation-happy content providers. Time will tell.
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