The battle between Japanese copyright holders and YouTube (GOOG) continues as a group of media and music companies from the country say they're not doing enough to combat the uploading of copyrighted video clips to the site.
At a press conference in Tokyo, composer Hideki Matsutake said, "There is no middle ground. We demand that all copyrighted material be removed immediately. We want them to reset the service."
This is the same group that met with Google and YouTube twice earlier this year and also demanded the removal of 29,000 files from the site last year, which 
Google did respond to.
A number of media companies and sports groups have sued the company for refusing to take similar steps; including Viacom (VIA-B) and the English Premiere League.
The technology is already available from other sources, which Google has evidently refused to use on its YouTube service. Having promised to have some filtering technology in place for earlier this year, companies seem to be starting to doubt the integrity of Google in the matter.
With studies and surveys showing a growing number of people desiring professional content, I wonder if Google is slow to respond because of the number of viewers and streams they'd lose at this time with the loss of professional content. It could expose a weakness in their video strategy they may want to hide as long as possible.
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