Viacom Sues YouTube for $1 Billion

YouTube is facing a $1 billion+ lawsuit from Viacom today. It was known that YouTube would eventually face at least one major lawsuit, and Viacom – which had already pulled 100,000 clips from the site, was perhaps the most likely to take a distaste to the company. Viacom is accusing YouTube of “massive intentional copyright infringement”, saying that 160,000 unauthorized Viacom clips have been uploaded onto YouTube, totaling more than 1.5 billion views.

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