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Viacom sues YouTube over copyrights
Viacom filed a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against the video-sharing site and corporate owner Google Inc.
Last month Viacom demanded that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from its site, and since that time the company has uncovered more than 50,000 additional unauthorized.
Viacom is especially at risk because many of its shows are aimed at younger audiences who also are heavy Internet users. At the same time, Viacom is trying to find other, legal ways to distribute its shows digitally, such as by selling episodes of "The Daily Show" and "South Park" for $1.99 each through Apple Inc.'s iTunes service. Those shows can then be viewed on a computer or video iPod.
In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Viacom says YouTube "harnessed technology to willfully infringe copyrights on a huge scale" and had "brazen disregard" of intellectual property laws.
YouTube's soaring popularity has been a cause of fascination but also fear among the owners of traditional media outlets, who worry that YouTube's displaying of user-uploaded clips from their programs — without compensation — will lure away viewers and ad dollars from cable and broadcast TV.
A major lawsuit against YouTube has been widely anticipated because so much of the online video pioneer's success has been driven by easy access to copyrighted clips shared by its users. -
i tink is members fault la, nt youtube fault...
the staff oso very busy 1 leh
take google off! they removed too much liao -
Agreed, sue also no point, the only way you can stop it is if you shut Youtube downOriginally posted by gigabyte14:i tink is members fault la, nt youtube fault...
the staff oso very busy 1 leh
take google off! they removed too much liao
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which this 1 billion just might do.
google shd have anticipated this. -
Hahahahahha! yes! they should have waited for its previous owner to clean up the mess.Originally posted by beavan:which this 1 billion just might do.
google shd have anticipated this. -
But they should have clean up the mess, given the due period of time,
but hey, since they are hosting the file, so logically, they will sue youtube, instead of the member -
Viacom stupid sia. Did they even bother to check how many videos there are in Youtube??? It is impossible for Youtube staff to eradicate all the illegal copyright infringement videos lor. They remove one, another five will be uploaded. It's a cursed cycle.
The founders lucky lor. They sold off youtube before all this crap hit them. :O -
Ya lor, left those money payment to Google to pay.Originally posted by Slipshade:The founders lucky lor. They sold off youtube before all this crap hit them. :O