Looking more closer at the report cited the Videos removed only contributed 5.93% to the overall traffic from the 9.23% of Videos that were removed.

This is interesting because it shows that unlike the conventional wisdom that copyright materials are the key drivers of growth, like Grokster and Napster had.

This makes sense because unlike with the early Napster, sites like YouTube had already built in mechanisms to try and control that kind of content. Now I still see a whole lot of licensed anime in YouTube but it’s still a lot less than what I would find on bittorrent. Personally YouTube to me is not a replacement for quality shows because it’s not high quality video, I want to watch it on a crisp display so to me that’s why I will continue to watch YouTube. The grainy, choppy quality is part of what makes YouTube…erhm…YouTube! Would you watch entire episodes of CSI on YouTube?

I wouldn’t…lots of better ways to watch this sort of thing…honestly.

MySpace China introduced itself as a “locally owned, operated and managed company” in which News Corp-owned MySpace was only one among several investors.

“Our team here will have the sole right to decide the operation model, the technology platform as well as the product strategy,” said MySpace China chief executive Luo Chuan, a former Microsoft executive. “It’s very unlike the other multinationals you might have heard about or seen in the Chinese market.”

Despite MySpace China’s efforts to differentiate itself, the overseas MySpace will be represented with three board members.

They include Mr Murdoch’s wife, Wendy Deng, as well as MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, Mr Luo said.

More about this is here.

When I tried to use my existing ID it said this:

Our records detected that you have a MySpace.com account. MySpace.cn is operated by a Chinese business entity governed under the laws of the People鈥檚 Republic of China and not by the US entity operating MySpace.com. Accordingly MySpace.cn will be subject to the laws and regulations of the People鈥檚 Republic of China including any such laws and regulations requiring disclosure of your data.

So the US and China databases are somehow integrated (or it can detect this), if I agree I would immediately be subject to Chinese laws, I doubt it goes the other way, doesn’t this somehow infringe on certain privacy rights as Myspace China is not wholly owned by Myspace USA (it has other investors and apparently is a separately run business)? This would mean that as a Chinese user I am unable to connect to fellow chinese unless I agree to abide by the above which maybe I don’t want to. What happens if I want to transfer to the back to the US? Am I assured that as long as I don’t agree by the above terms that my information will be kept private according to laws outside of the US?

Neither Google, Yahoo or MSN have managed to penetrate China successfully, I wonder if Myspace can do it, I think it will be very tough.

A few months ago I installed this profile map that logs where vpeople visit me from, well I’m happy to say that apparently I get visits from quite a few people ALL OVER THE WORLD! I’m very happy and want to thank all of you who visit my website for your willingness to be amused by me!

You have been marked on my profile map!