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Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads

Posted by timothy on from the when-back-channels-collide dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "Google, Inc. accused Viacom, Inc. of secretly uploading its videos to YouTube even as the media conglomerate publicly denounced the online video site for copyright infringement, according to court documents made public on Thursday." As "statements from the corporate counsel's office" go, this post on the YouTube blog is pretty hot reading.

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  1. I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by unity100 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    isnt one.

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    1. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by dotancohen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      isnt one.

      A wedding picture with the tampoon string hanging out. Definite oops. Or this.

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    2. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      xkcd is painfully unfunny.

      and you're painfully retarded. seriously, it hurts even to think about how retarded you are.

      like, you're making Trig Palin look very, very smart by comparison.

    3. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Based on the 10 or so strips I've seen, I agree. They were all as dull as plain toasted white bread.

    4. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      Eh, there's a difference between reading it and finding it amusing ... and feeling a need to bring it up in every possible discussion and work it into every conversation, like some kind of obsession.

      That's what SHE said!

    5. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by h4rr4r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You're welcome. I always try to help those less fortunate.

    6. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this by Toonol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Xkcd is a pretty good and generally clever comic, and I suspect you hate it for non-rational reasons... but that's neither here nor there.

      I agree that the GP's insult of Trig Palin gives him away as an idiot. It's a type of humor that only the insecure utilize.

  2. prove it with documentation, and DMCA can be gutte by swschrad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    which is a big step forward towards doing what the megacopyright holders want... getting after the thugs who are stealing their content.

    not the figurative street signs, phone booths, and waste cans that are getting in the way and getting whaled on by the megacopyright holders. for the YouTubes of the world are the equivalent of the graffito-ed walls, and the content theives are the real lawbreakers here.

    suing the walls (server holders) is not an answer. it's a public tantrum.

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  3. Re:If Viacom wins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Viacom wins there isn't anything that cannot be bought.

    Including a night with yo mama.

  4. Re:Wow. by master5o1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google wants your data to improve its targeted advertising.

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