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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. I predicted this a while ago by MikeRT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Six months ago, I said this was bound to happen to Google. Youtube's business model is simply too much like an ad-supported file sharing network. They don't do enough to censor and punish copyright infringers, and now a studio with the resources to sue Google is taking them on in court.