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YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It
pcause writes "Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to grow fast and sell for a lot of money. It also seems clear that Google knew the site contained pirated content and bought it and continued the pirating."
That's ridiculous.
Please provide proof that Viacom would have gone through with the deal after discovering this kind of information. I'll state that (1) they wouldn't have bought YouTube, and that (2) they would have instead started massive legal action against the company had they been in possession of this data. I suppose it's possible that had YouTube opened the internal records floodgates for Viacom's perusal, maybe YouTube would have been bought for $10 and subsequently dismantled or converted hastily into a full blown paid subscription-based site in short order (with the alternative being getting sued out of existence). Somehow, I just don't see it.
Again, that's absolutely ridiculous.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
I forgot, pirating content is okay on Slashdot.
Unless it's GPL code. Then, it suddenly becomes "stolen" code and the "thieves" must be punished.
Microsoft 1990's bad behavior. Slashdot 2010 "Microsoft evil kill". Google mid 2000's bad behavior. Slashdot 2010 "oh that's in the past"