Saturday, March 20, 2010

Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings; Ars Technica, 3/19/10

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica; Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings:

"Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have "smoking gun" evidence that YouTube was deliberately profiting from 62,637 Viacom clips that were watched more than 507 million times on the site? Was Google aware of the copyright infringement problems when it purchased YouTube in 2006? Were YouTube's own founders involved in uploading unauthorized materials?

On all three counts, Viacom says yes—and it offers up a host of e-mails to prove it..."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/smoking-guns-dark-secrets-spilled-in-youtube-viacom-filings.ars

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