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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. Joost by JackMeyhoff · · Score: 0, Troll

    Viacom has signed a big deal with www.joost.com , YouTube is for amateurs, H.264 is where the content is, not On2's VP codecs and flash. Joost is going to be HUGE.

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