14 DAY TRIAL // Back in June, the online video sharing platform YouTube rolled out several regional versions of the service in France, Spain, Brazil, Poland, UK, Japan and other countries. Today, after almost two months since the release, the Japanese users seem to be very interested in Google's video service as most of the country's residents are visiting the official page looking for video content. What's most interesting is that Japan is the only country able to use Sony's eyeVio, a YouTube-like product that is currently available in beta only for this nation.
If you didn't know, Sony's online video sharing service was described as the YouTube killer that is going to destroy Google's product and steal all its users. All of us were hardly waiting for the big release of eyeVio and see what will happen with YouTube, our favorite video sharing service that hosts so many clips uploaded by consumers from all around the world. Sony finally launched the product but, since its big and great release moment, nobody talked about eyeVio anymore. Well, that's a big hit for YouTube, don't you think?
However, FierceIPTV reports today that not even the Japanese users, who are the only ones who are able to try Sony's eyeVio in their mother tongue, like this service and moreover, most of them are attracted by Google's YouTube and its impressive community of users. The regional version of the video service recorded an impressive amount of traffic, being the most popular one among the recently released regional YouTube flavors.
The bad thing about this is that the Japanese media companies are now criticizing the Mountain View company for the old, well-known, already-boring, let's-forget-about-it matter, copyright infringement. Although Google struggles to stop the copyright infringement and the illegal clips appearing on its website, numerous companies from all over the world are creating alliances that fight against the Mountain View giant in court.