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# YouTube Pulls 30,000 Videos
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/youtube_pulls_3/
- Published: 2006-10-20T11:26:38.000Z
- Updated: 2006-10-20T11:26:38.000Z
- Description: It feels like Napster all over again… YouTube has pulled 30,000 videos because of complaints from a Japanese rights society. (WSJ Online) The major labels may own a stake in. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/10/youtube_pulls_3.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Marketing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

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It feels like Napster all over again…

**YouTube has pulled 30,000 videos because of complaints from a Japanese rights society.** [(WSJ Online)](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116133637777798831.html?mod=googlenews%5Fwsj&ref=hypebot.com)

**The major labels may own a stake in YouTube, but do the music publishers who control the song copywrites care?**