After the Release, the Story began

When the first version VOLUMEONE, the current VOLUMEZERO, was released in May 2006, it was widely written up by Japanese media as it was practically the first of its kind of a major scale in Japan at that time. Everybody compared VOLUMEONE to YouTube and asked the team what they thought about the future of YouTube and how they intend to protect copyright of the content once it's on the VOLUMEONE. They had to repeat themselves many times that even though VOLUMEONE might look similar to YouTube by what it does, it is not a user generated video distribution scheme like YouTube. On the contrary, VOLUMEONE is administered more or less on a broadcast model and each content is provided by an expert and screened by the system administrator at DMC Institute, Keio University. All of the video materials are given directly to the administrative team from the author and each content is proven to be original including music. With this kind of strict code of operation, the team soon discovered that it takes a very long time to accumulate video content on the platform. It may become discouraging for your collaborators to observe your strict rules at all times, but it was their decision and they chose to work only with people who agreed to these terms. They spent hours talking to the content holders before actually receiving the video materials. This process was especially important as the DMC Institute is not a museum and it could act only as an intermediary when obtaining the video content.