Viacom-Google Case Now Hollywood vs. Internet?

[exfileme]

Both Google and Viacom are now backed by their peers, turning a dispute into an all-out Hollywood vs. Internet war.

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[gpace]

I wonder who will win if we judge them by how much each has contributed to the world. Faster and easier access to information, both true and false, or creation of entertainment, half of which misleads people.

 

[skevil]

Let me be the first to say: fuck Viacom and all its supporters.

Go Google.

 

[ricardok]

Ok, now let's sue viacom and others because their use of illegal practices that gives them 90% of the profit and only 10% (or less) for the artists..

 

[captjack5169]

I guess, as user of both You Tube and these moron media moguls who are not happy with the billions they rake in every year off of guys like me. I would have to say to VIACOM and its supports. "WTF have you done for me lately" Commercial free and there whenever I want it. Instead of trying to stop youtube why dont you cowboy up and find a way to make money off it like everyone else.

 

[princeofdreams]

The best weapon google & the others have is to completely ban any of the said Hollywood set from advertising with them or any of their related sites, nearly all media advertising is done over the web, cut that off from them and they will be in real trouble,

What viacom and all the others forget is how much they rely on the internet, if google, facebook and yahoo veto all off their products, not allowing any photos, stories, adverts, clips features anything, these companies will suffer big time

 

[dmk2000]

Well, if Viacom wins, I see a lot of profit loss by Hollywood due to viewers refusing pay to movies studios, increase of piracy too.

 

[anamaniac]

Now this sounds like a interesting case.
Viacom could burn through all I care though. I don't have cable, and I only go and see a movie once a month.

 

[bv90andy]

Google is not protected under the DMCA

I thought almost everything stored on google's servers is user created content. and as far as I know DMCA also contains a part where it says that Service providers are not responsible for content created by users.

 

[milktea]

I haven't hear the name VIACOM for quite some time. They must be in some financial trouble to bring up this rediculous lawsuit.

 

[descendency]

Didn't google have a smoking gun saying viacom was just using them for a lawsuit?

 

[duckmanx88]

yeah but these a-holes have no problem posting their trailers up for free advertisement. you think i dont see the 500 princess and the frog trailers you left up there disney? how about the dozens of Office lips nbc? yeah you like that FREE promotion don't you. what about you viacom? i bet you love seeing the trailers for icarly up there. all that free promotion for nickeleoden sure is nice. fuck viacom. i would understand if it was a website purposely posting your vids. but it was individual users in the early days of youtube.

 

[kyeana]

aka, the people vs corporate america

 

[descendency]

[citation][nom]milktea[/nom]I haven't hear the name VIACOM for quite some time. They must be in some financial trouble to bring up this rediculous lawsuit.[/citation]
They own quite a bit of stuff you hear of regularly. I doubt they are in financial trouble.

 

[falchard]

lol no way Viacom wins. They are just wasting their money. First Google's main business is not Youtube. They did not build a business from pirating videos. Second is Google bought Youtube after it started using stricter intellectual property protection measures.

 

[gm0n3y]

As long as Youtube removes content at the request of the owner, I don't see how they can be liable.


@falchard, when you buy a company, you become fiscally responsible for their prior actions.

 

[Userremoved]

Although Google is becoming more of an a-hole by putting ads and crap all around the place Viacom are just a bunch of @$$es and trolls. So go Google! Get the TNT and to Viacom HQ we go (joking)!

 

[bobusboy]

i dont use youtube any more; the service blows becuase of all the ads.

 

[gorehound]

I have been boycotting Hollywood,RIAA,MPAA,etc for a year now.I am fighting back against these big companies by myself.I refuse to go to a theater, nor will I buy anything NEW but I do buy what I need used.I may have to wait a week or two after street date but that is OK as I get what I want and the greedbags get no money from my sale.
BAN NEW GREEDBAG PRODUCTS FROM YOUR HOME !!!
BUY USED !!!

 

[Pyroflea]

[citation][nom]bobusboy[/nom]i dont use youtube any more; the service blows becuase of all the ads.[/citation]

There's hardly any ads. Tom's Hardware has 5x the ads (not saying that's bad, just pointing it out), and even has full page ads that you have to A) Wait for it to go away, or B) Click "Skip Ad". All this, and Youtube's 2 ads per page still bothers you?