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Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion

Posted by Zonk on from the everyone-get-their-doctor-evil-fingers-up dept.

Snowgen writes "Viacom has filed a $1,000,000,000.00 lawsuit for 'massive intentional copyright infringement' against Google over YouTube video clips. '"YouTube's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site," Viacom said in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws.'"

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  1. Re:Whew by The+Webguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let the Games begin! How long before this becomes a class action?

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  2. Re:You want a cookie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You make some great points.

    Though, it'd be nice if you'd quit bitching about moderation (over and over). When I have mod points, I usually moderate such things as "off topic", as most don't come here to read about the moderation system.

    (Which is why I'm posting this AC, as I'm also not discussing the topic at hand. Please do moderate this as "off topic".)

    Stick to the subject...