April 18, 2010

Youtube vs Viacom courtroom drama


This is about as strange as it can get, and it is not some hack company claiming rights over some obscure pieces of code this time around.Two of the biggest, and most powerful companies in the world are fighting it out court,and the things are getting ugly. Viacom field a US $1 billion suite against google's video uploading and sharing services.Youtube ,alleging that a number of video present on youtube were infringing the copyright of the content that belong to Viacom. The case has been going on since 2007, and there is a fresh twist to the tale. The YouTube representative in the court alleged that the copyright was infringed by the copyright owners themselves . They claim that Viacom has been paying people to take content that belonged to Viacon, change the quality of the content to make it look amateurish, and then upload the content on youtube. YouTube alleges that there were a number of marketing agencies put to work in this manner, as it would help Viacom win the case. May be someone should inform both Viacom and YouTube about ISOhunt.

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