Viacom suing Google/YouTube "for $1 Billion Dollars!"

[Rico]

MrO, MrO, MrO....

I still say good luck to Viacom at putting the genie back in the bottle.  In an ideal world I agree with you.  But the world is not ideal and I'm a realist.  We shall see how this all works out in the end.

[MrOsterman]

MrO, MrO, MrO....

I still say good luck to Viacom at putting the genie back in the bottle.  In an ideal world I agree with you.  But the world is not ideal and I'm a realist.  We shall see how this all works out in the end.

You're totally right.  I just wish I knew my rules of acquisition well enough to be able to quote one here. 

It will be hard to stop the sharing of videos on the Internet, now that this phase of sharing has been reached.

I wonder if this was what forums would have looked like if we had had the internet when the Xerox machine was first introduced.

Mr. O

[The IC]

I found an interesting article on Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070319-infringing-videos-on-ifilm-could-cause-problems-for-viacom.html

Even as Viacom sues YouTube for what it describes as "brazen" copyright infringement, some of Viacom's own dirty copyright laundry is being aired. Ars searched one Viacom property—iFilm, which was acquired by Viacom in 2005—and found several instances of infringing video hosted by iFilm—content for which Viacom does not own the copyright.

Perhaps Viacom should clean up it's own act before accusing others of doing what it is doing.