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The cat and mouse game between video uploaders, YouTube (GOOG) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences continues as a day after demanding that YouTube remove videos for Sunday's Oscar performances, they're going to do the same again soon as clips keep on surfacing as fast they can be taken down.

A number of performances on the show have been the most-watched videos on YouTube this week. Popular clips of Will Ferrill and Beyonce are among those that keep resurfacing.
 
After being asked to remove 75 clips originally, it looks like a request for at least 65 more removals is in the works. As long as YouTube complies with the requests, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects them from liability for the uploads.

YouTube released their usual statement saying: "... We prohibit users from uploading infringing material, and we cooperate with all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified."

While we all knew that this would happen, the Oscar.com site is woefully put together with only offering about a five-minute clip of the almost 4-hour show. A spokesman for the academy said that it has no other plans to add more clips to the site. This is in spite of traffic surging over last year's Web traffic.

There's not much more to say here that hasn't been said thousands of times. Now all they will do is police YouTube instead of putting all sorts of performances and interesting things on Oscar.com that people want to see.