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YouTube’s Favorite Clips Aren't Copyrighted - New York Times by Decius at 9:10 am EDT, Apr 9, 2007
Vidmeter, which tracks the online video business, determined that the clips that were removed for copyright violations — most of them copyrighted by big media companies — comprise just 9 percent of all videos on the site. Even more surprising, the videos that have been removed make up just 6 percent of the total views (vidmeter.com).
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RE: YouTube’s Favorite Clips Aren't Copyrighted
by noteworthy at 4:08 pm EDT, Apr 9, 2007

Decius wrote:

Even more surprising, the videos that have been removed make up just 6 percent of the total views (vidmeter.com).

I don't see why this is so surprising. It's akin to expressing surprise that most telephone calls are not "commercial" (as in delivery of paid content). Or that most email traffic is not copyrighted.

I would be more interested in looking at the overall distribution ... a Long Tail plot.

Unfortunately, it seems like this press coverage is mostly orchestrated to drive traffic to Vidmeter, which is distinctly in the short head business:

Vidmeter gathers data from across the web to provide an accurate representation of the most popular online videos.

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