biz.yahoo.com — The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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qbyteMar 14, 2007
I'm going to scroll through the hundred comments already on this subject to post yet another one that will soon be a blur as others scroll to the bottom to post their own. I say let the two giants duke it out. Perhaps after they all beat each other up over licensing crap, it will dawn on them that it's a stupid way to do business. It will accomplish nothing and will only hurt all of their profits.
Closed AccountMar 14, 2007
I know everybody loves google but their stock is incredibly overvalued and they made a horrendous business decision when they bought youtube.The stockmarket is in the process of bleeding off billions because of boneheaded business moves like this. I am sure viacom is only the first in a long line of billion dollar suits filed against youtube. On top of that google is about to lose its ass to the same massive stock devaluation that ended the tech boom of the late 90s. By the time google's stock stops falling it will look like Lucent did after the first internet tech bubble.
anoriegaMar 14, 2007
Please. I just plain wouldn't have seen their clips if they weren't on YouTube. No one's going to watch TV to wait for a particular re-run to come on for the clip they want to see (if they even ever show it again). If anything, the clips being online just gave them positive publicity for whatever show they were from.
rstevensMar 14, 2007
Stupid Viacom. Losers. How short-sited. Make friends with Google and do a deal, which if done right could generate far more income. Viacom foks--this is only 2007. Screw Google and they can remove you from advertising deals for the next hundred years.
dopenklyMar 15, 2007
I'm boycotting Viacom and canceling my blockbuster online membership. Netflix will have to suffice. If I want to watch any content owned by Viacom, I will watch it at my friend Bill's house. He pirates all his media. I read through some of the comments and was happy to see they were pro-google. I was amazed at a few of the comments that claimed that Google is unoriginal and only provides other people's content. That's hilarious. Have you been following anything that Google has been doing in the last few years? Their hands are in everything... I'm the first person to point my hands and scream "Evil cooperation"! but... man, oh man....that's just not the impression I get from Google. If anything, it seems like they're going to bat for the people who couldn't defend themselves the first time (napster). Anyone have boycott Viacom banners made?
fathedMar 20, 2007
It doesn't matter how many times they have to send a take down notice. The LAW says that YouTube is exempt, YouTube is following the LAW. The court may try to change the law, but that is out of their power. They can interpret it, and they can declare it unconstitutional, but the court cannot edit the law.If YouTube loses, this is not America, since the constitution would now have been violated by all 3 branches of the government to the point that the freedom and idea of America is no longer what it was. Digg me down if you want, it's your rights too that are getting jacked, and you seem to think it's perfectly fine.
mrplugMar 25, 2007
wah wah wah, damn corps, all they do is complain, instead of investing money in suing, invest it in trying to make actual money, tards.
viacomsucksApr 30, 2007
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