YouTube Not Built on Big Media’s Back?

Videos removed at the request of copyright owners accounted for just 5.93 percent of the site’s 6,725 most-viewed videos over the last three months, according to a study by video-tracking site Vidmeter (full report).

Four times a day, Vidmeter checks YouTube for the 100 most viewed videos of all time, the month, the week, and the day. For the purposes of the study, it compiled a list of URLs where videos had been replaced with a takedown notice alert. The disappeared videos accounted for 9.23 percent of top videos and 5.93 percent of 94,187,203 views of these videos — not anywhere near the majority.