Viacom Sues Google Over Youtube Video Clips

[TR0N]

Frist they pull the old music videos i enjoy watching now this 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/business/14viacom.web.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Michael Helgeson]

Yes I read about thi son Comcast news,and it is getting old. Its not even that Youtube is stealing anything themselves,as its the users posting the videos to begin with I thought. Basically MTV is attacking its own viewers in  a indirect way by just placing the blame on Youtube itself.Maybe more then anything MTV is irked becaus eyou can find more music videos on Youtube then you can MTV itself...

[Necromancer]

Ha-ha-ha-ha!  That's the absolute truth.  Does MTV even play music videos anymore?   

I'm not sure where Viacom came up with the amount of $1 billion.  I don't see how they have been financially hurt by youtube content - at least not to such an extent.  Sounds like scare tactics and chasing deep pockets, which means that the lawyers will be the only winners.

[FM-77]

I hope they win. Google needs to lose money, I'm not a fan of their whole world-domination project.

[nodtveidt]

I hope Viacom falls on its stupid fat face. Notice how they didn't pull this bullshit until YouTube was firmly under control of Google? You can't get blood from a stone...so they weren't going to lift a finger until Google had full ownership of the site.