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Google Spent $100M Defending Viacom Lawsuit

Posted by Soulskill on from the expensive-justice dept.

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."

2 of 153 comments (clear)

  1. Rights? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Like Google's self-appointed "right" to blatantly violate hundreds of thousands of other people's copyrights?

  2. Countries that got smart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and kicked out the jews

    Year Place
    1. 250 Carthage
    2. 415 Alexandria
    3. 554 Diocèse of Clermont (France)
    4. 561 Diocèse of Uzès (France)
    5. 612 Visigoth Spain
    6. 642 Visigoth Empire
    7. 855 Italy
    8. 876 Sens
    9. 1012 Mainz
    10. 1182 France
    11. 1182 Germany
    12. 1276 Upper Bavaria
    13. 1290 England
    14. 1306 France
    15. 1322 France (again)
    16. 1348 Switzerland
    17. 1349 Hielbronn (Germany)
    18. 1349 Saxony
    19. 1349 Hungary
    20. 1360 Hungary
    21. 1370 Belgium
    22. 1380 Slovakia
    23. 1388 Strasbourg
    24. 1394 Germany
    25. 1394 France
    26. 1420 Lyons
    27. 1421 Austria
    28. 1424 Fribourg
    29. 1424 Zurich
    30. 1424 Cologne
    31. 1432 Savoy
    32. 1438 Mainz
    33. 1439 Augsburg
    34. 1442 Netherlands
    35. 1444 Netherlands
    36. 1446 Bavaria
    37. 1453 France
    38. 1453 Breslau
    39. 1454 Wurzburg
    40. 1462 Mainz
    41. 1483 Mainz
    42. 1484 Warsaw
    43. 1485 Vincenza (Italy)
    44. 1492 Spain
    45. 1492 Italy
    46. 1495 Lithuania
    47. 1496 Naples
    48. 1496 Portugal
    49. 1498 Nuremberg
    50. 1498 Navarre