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Viacom Strikes Back

Let's face it, videos of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert comprise a significant share of what is actually funny on YouTube. Viacom apparently wants others to provide the humor, as Reuters reports the company has demanded YouTube take down every Viacom video, estimated at around 100,000. One buzz at CES last month was the fact that YouTube had promised to implement technology that could filter content from studios by year-end but had failed to do so. This report seems to indicate that Viacom isn't willing to wait any longer.

UPDATE: Kudos to YouTube, which quickly said they would act on Viacom's request.

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You mean like this?:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jim/2007/02/02/the-viacom-international-copyright-dmca-debacle-about-youtube-videos-should-we-counter-sue/

I hope Viacom gets its ass handed to it in court.

Posted by: Michael M. at February 2, 2007 5:24 PM

Maybe their law group should be disbarred for falsifying documents stating their client owned material they did not own, based on using a broad search net using words from Viacom works. Any idiot over the age of 5 would know this is going to identify other private none Viacom works.

Posted by: Robert P at February 5, 2007 11:15 AM

So what solution do you folks propose? Should YouTube have better controls, better search functionality, or simply ignore such copyright requests?

Posted by: Noel Le at February 5, 2007 3:53 PM
 
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