14 DAY TRIAL // Because YouTube is owned by the super giant Google it's pretty obvious that it should follow the plans imposed by the parent company. Since Google Search evolved a lot and became available in almost any corner of the world, the Mountain View company wants to do the same with the online video sharing service which is now supposed to reach new countries and consumers.
Basically, Google plans to create one new YouTube version for each country around the globe in order to allow the local uploaders to promote their videos among the residents. Moreover, it could bring about legal problems, such as the ones encountered in Thailand where the authorities banned the entire service because they were not able to remove some clips. Imagine that if YouTube Thailand existed, the officials would be able to restrict the access only to the local version of the video sharing service, allowing the consumers to visit the other flavors of the product.
Today, the Mountain View company proudly announced that YouTube Taiwan is available while the Hong-Kong edition was quietly introduced a few days ago. Besides these two versions, YouTube can be used by French, Italian, Spanish and many other users around the world straight into their native language.
Just like I said, YouTube follows the directions imposed by Google which seem to be way too similar to the Google Search ones. Since Google's search engine became famous, the parent company struggled to increase its popularity by releasing the local version for numerous countries and it managed to do so since many of you are now searching the web using their own Google Search.
Moreover, the super giant seems prepared to resolve one of the most important problems for the video sharing service: the copyright infringement. Since it was acquired by Google, YouTube brought way too many lawsuits for the parent company, the most known one being filed by Viacom which also required $1 billion in damages. A few days ago, YouTube introduced the Video Identification tool which is supposed to allow copyright holders to detect infringing content and remove them from the official page in no time.
Although it was first rumored the function would be called 'Claim Your Content', we all expected it and since it's here, let's hope YouTube will become a safer place when it comes to the copyright of the content uploaded by the users.