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U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in New York sided with Google Wednesday as he rebuffed Viacom’s attempt to collect more than $1 billion in damages for YouTube’s alleged copyright infringement during its first two years of existence. Suck it Viacom!!!

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“F— those motherf—ers”: YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty
The sad thing about today’s new YouTube/Viacom document dump– That the e-mails cited in it were written by adults.Neither side comes out looking terrific—which was also true the first time the two sides aired their dirty laundry in public.So here you have it—a short course in becoming a media mogul:Viacom quotes YouTube employee Maryrose Dunton telling an engineer to "’forget about the email…

Viacom, YouTube battle heats up – May. 21, 2010
Viacom, YouTube fight gets “F***ing” ugly http://bit.ly/bzSH37

Google and Viacom blend high-profile copyright suits with extreme profanity, as nature intended – Boing Boing
You know what I’m interested in– Copyright lawsuits. And profanity.Lucky for me, Google and Viacom have provided both today, in the form of a series of emails released through the discovery process in Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube. In these emails, the two companies take turns cussin’ and spittin’ and swearin’ about each other. Hilarity ensues. Ars Technica rounds up some of the…

Google offered Viacom $500 million for content | Media Maverick – CNET News
Not long after Google acquired YouTube, the search engine offered $500 million in guaranteed revenue if Viacom, parent company of MTV Networks, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, licensed its TV shows and films to YouTube, records show.

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YouTube was intentionally built on infringement and there are countless internal YouTube communications demonstrating that YouTube’s founders and its employees intended to profit from that infringement. By their own admission, the site contained –truckloads– of infringing content and founder Steve Chen explained that YouTube needed to –steal– vi…   More

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Google-Viacom Court Documents Out; Google Says Viacom ‘
The three-year-old lawsuit in which Viacom is seeking $1 billion from Google over copyrighted videos on YouTube moved a step forward today with the release of

YouTube hits back in Viacom row
YouTube accuses Viacom of secretly uploading content to the video-sharing site whilst publicly complaining about its presence.

Viacom Seems To Be Misrepresenting YouTube Founder’s Call To
Weâ—-re still going through these recently released YouTube/Viacom litigation documents, and itâ—-s becoming clear that we canâ—-t take everything thatâ—-s being said by either party at face value (as if we didnâ—-t know that already).

Accusations Fly in Viacom, YouTube Copyright Fight
Google deliberately weakened its copyright compliance standards after it acquired YouTube in 2006 so it would profit from illegal downloads, Google co-founder

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