Bad news for the YouTube set: Viacom today demanded that the popular video site remove all Viacom content from the site and Google this afternoon has complied. Viacom includes BET, Famous Music, MTV Networks - MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, Spike TV, TV Land Paramount Pictures and Paramount Home Entertainment - a cornucopia of YouTube traffic generating content.
The company says that content represents about 100,000 video clips - lifeblood to YouTube.Viacom said its pirated programs on YouTube generate about 1.2 billion video streams, based on a study from an outside consultant, according to a Reuters report.
According to MarketWatch: Viacom's action begs the question about whether other major U.S. entertainment firms will follow its lead.
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Viacom execs are NOT using their heads
THINK Viacom think!!
I hope Viacom loses
The question that comes to my mind amid this so called copyright violation between youtube.com and google is, Why does CBS (company that is owned by Viacom) have an account with Youtube, and why does CBS post highlights from it's weekly shows on Youtube, if they feel they are being violated by this copyright?
It doesn't make sense, and if goes to court, what will Viacom's defense be? We didn't know? Come on. ... I hope Viacom loses.