Viacom Asks YouTube to Remove Clips – New York Times — I use the word idiots here for three reasons. The first is that these clips are actually free publicity and promotion. One of these days Viacom may have to pay to have such free promotion put online like this. Secondly YouTube is a huge money loser. Who is Viacom kidding when they say that YouTube is profiting. How?
And, finally, do you really want to stiff Google like this when it’s not important? Hey, dorks, I have a huge idea for you. Sue Google because that will force the world’s most important search engine to probably have to pull any references to Viacom and all its connections off the search engine. You know, because some lawyer told them to since they are being sued.
Idiots indeed.
Viacom is particularly unhappy because so many of its shows, like “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” a YouTube favorite, appeal to the young audiences who visit the site.
“We cannot continue to let them profit from our programming,” Philippe P. Dauman, Viacom’s chief executive, said in an interview. Mr. Dauman said that Viacom had been in discussions with Google for months, but that Google kept delaying and did not make what Viacom saw as a serious offer.
So Google turned over gigabytes worth of free consumer behavior and marketing data for Viacom to use? I think no matter what the outcome, Viacom is already a big winner here.
If Viacom wins this, be forewarned that next step will be that Viacom goes after the ones that posted said infringements on youtube.
@Robert maybe it was best that they deleted your account. It quite possibly be to save you from being sued? At this point with big companies looking to get their pockets filled I wouldn’t put it past them.