Google Spent $100M Defending Viacom Lawsuit

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Lawsuits are never cheap, even if you're on the winning side. But not many cost as much as Viacom's lawsuit against Google. The search giant won before trial, and even so Google spent $100 million defending themselves. Incidentally, Viacom is appealing the ruling, so it's not even over yet. Perhaps it's no wonder our rights are vanishing online when it takes $100M to protect just one of them."

Comments

Re:Other interesting monies

[MobyDisk]

As we know, belief trumps fact./quote>
Is that a fact?

It has been widely believed to be true until studies have proven it to be true

Okay, I'll believe it then.

Re:A possible fix:

[gandhi_2]

Your invention of the "ice pick in the eye over the internet" would just land you in court against this guy.

Re:go tell it to the DMCA buddy

[Anonymous Coward]

Google will claim the entire 100m as a tax writeoff.

Kramer: It's a write-off for them.
Jerry: How is it a write-off?
Kramer: They just write it off.
Jerry: Write it off what?
Kramer: Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything.
Jerry: You don't even know what a write-off is.
Kramer: Do you?
Jerry: No, I don't.
Kramer: But they do — and they are the ones writing it off.
Jerry: I wish I could have the last 20 seconds of my life back.