Viacom sues YouTube for $1B; YouTube pwns Viacom

[Undertoad]

Big media company Viacom took YouTube to court for not taking down Viacom content quickly.

It's now day one of the trial and YouTube's opener has offered up this precious nugget:

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom.
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Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement.

Get it? Viacom wanted the Youtube audience, to promote their content... while at the same time they were planning to sue for big money because their stuff was on YT! "YT is robbing us blind! And the worst thing is, we can't put our own stuff up on YT!"

Fuckers!

This should be over real soon.

[xoxoxoBruce]

...while at the same time they were planning to sue for big money because their stuff was on YT!

Maybe not, could be the octopus's tentacles didn't know what the other seven were doing.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's now day one of the trial and YouTube's opener has offered up this precious nugget:

[Elspode]

That's awesome! It's greed from both directions. They want free publicity for their stuff so they can make more money off of it, so they upload it to YT. At the same time, there's the supposition that having their stuff available for free on YT will cost them money, so they sue to get money.

I need to start cataloging this stuff so I can write my book, "It's All About the Money, It is ONLY About the Money, and Anyone Who Says Different is a Fucking Liar".