Viacom sues Google
Posted: March 14, 2007
no big surprise here. it was only a matter of time before someone came after youtube. hell, i have watched so much cool free shit on their site while wondering hmmm, i bet somebody’s pocket-book is not happy about this
. this is always what happens. it happened to napster and kazaaa and now youtube. sharing is not caring, sharing is loosing someone money.
personally i could care less about viacom loosing money.
check out the article here: viacom sues google
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You must wonder what googles long term plan is or was w/ youtube? They must have seen this coming from the get go, no way it’s unexpected. They had copy right troubles trying to digitize books, and that’s silly last century media, not tv and music and the properties of the gigantic conglomerates like Viacom.
Has google’s Utopian vision of open info confused them about the bottom line, or do they have a bigger plan, something that is seeing beyond the trivial matters of something like a 1B lawsuit? I like to think the latter. But if the former, well, histories full of dumber follies.
From GM on March 14th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
It’s particularly interesting since Viacom is part of the group creating a site to compete with GoogleTube. I’d say this is part of their strategy. It reminds me of when ABC, NBC, and CBS news started focusing on MySpace as a place for predatory pedophiles only after Fox bought MySpace.
From Justin Kistner on March 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm