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"Rumor of the Day: Google's launching European versions of YouTube.\nBased on the upcoming Press Day held by Google in Paris next week, and the place-holder, blank or error status of URLS such as YouTube.de, YouTube.co.uk and YouTube.fr, there is much speculation going around that Google will be launching YouTube sites on a more global scale.   There are also reports of television companies in France and Germany having been in discussions with YouTube for an upcoming site in their respective countries. The upcoming Chinese version of YouTube has already been announced.\nIt makes sense for YouTube to expand its site offerings to include worldwide growth, especially considering the existing channels and groups in Europe that already have branded channels and deals of some sort with the video-sharing site.  These efforts could also aid in the growing class action lawsuit initiated by the English Premier League, citing YouTube's apparent disregard for the maintenance of repeat copyright violation by users on the site.  \nThis ties in with YouTube's announcement that it's moving closer towards the completion of its copyright infringement detection system (previously known as the Claim Your Content directive), which could solve half of YouTube's legal problems if implemented effectively.  Warner and Disney are two media companies that have already begun testing the fingerprinting technology.\n[via]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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