Comments on: Japanese video sharing site http://fukumimi.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/japanese-video-sharing-site/ Shin Fukushige, a returnee venture capitalist living and working in Tokyo Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bill Cooney http://fukumimi.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/japanese-video-sharing-site/#comment-56122 Bill Cooney Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:52:26 +0000 http://fukumimi.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-56122 For those who don't know, the comments on videos on Nico are timecoded along with the video playback. A "comments" toggle-button at the bottom of the video allows you to turn this streaming textual commentary subtitle track on or off. A complete copyright hole and Japanese companies seem more concerned about attacking the outsider, Google's YouTube (perhaps something to do with deeper pockets?) than going after Nico. Bizzarre, really. I have Japanese friends who fill their downtime watching entire anime or drama series off Nico. For those who don’t know, the comments on videos on Nico are timecoded along with the video playback. A “comments” toggle-button at the bottom of the video allows you to turn this streaming textual commentary subtitle track on or off.

A complete copyright hole and Japanese companies seem more concerned about attacking the outsider, Google’s YouTube (perhaps something to do with deeper pockets?) than going after Nico. Bizzarre, really. I have Japanese friends who fill their downtime watching entire anime or drama series off Nico.

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