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Viacom Copyright Suit Against YouTube Called Threat to Online Media
National News • May 28, 2008
A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all ...
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| RE: RE: another way to look at it? | Fred Hilpert | May 29, 2008, 7:38 am |
| RE: another way to look at it? | lastbat | May 28, 2008, 7:59 pm |
| another way to look at it? | Greg | May 28, 2008, 7:05 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: This may be a stupid question... | johnny | May 28, 2008, 4:43 pm |
| simple property rights | Mike | May 28, 2008, 3:08 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: simple property rights | lastbat | May 28, 2008, 3:01 pm |
| RE: RE: simple property rights | The Benevolent One | May 28, 2008, 2:41 pm |
| RE: simple property rights | Matt | May 28, 2008, 2:05 pm |
| RE: simple property rights | Nebraskan | May 28, 2008, 1:56 pm |
| simple property rights | Greg | May 28, 2008, 1:16 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: This may be a stupid question... | Compman | May 28, 2008, 1:08 pm |
| RE: RE: This may be a stupid question... | Guy | May 28, 2008, 12:50 pm |
| RE: This may be a stupid question... | Nebraskan | May 28, 2008, 11:49 am |
| This may be a stupid question... | KLS | May 28, 2008, 11:27 am |
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Subject: This may be a stupid question...
Yes yes yes, I know Viacom is also in business to make money and if these things are hosted on YouTube then that *might* mean lost ad revenue. Then again, South Park is originally aired full of ads and it is now in syndication in several markets, meaning it's still making a buck or two, so what is Viacom crying about?
Will Viacom have to prove that the material being viewed on YouTube is doing financial damage? How would that be determined?
Why not just ask YouTube to take down the offending videos? I hear they are very cooperative about doing that when notified of an "illegal" posting.
Maybe I would be having a fit if I were in Viacom's situation. But I tend to think there comes a point when you've got so much money, you really don't have a reason to complain.