Viacom sues YouTube for $1B; YouTube pwns Viacom

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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.