Feb
02

Google’s YouTube Loses Content per Viacom

Written by Jonathan Dingman
02/02/2007 10:54 ET - Filed under Uncategorized

This just came in from Reuters, but Viacom, which operates MTV and Comedy Central, has asked Google’s YouTube to remove a lot of their copyrighted videos.

Viacom said its pirated programs on YouTube generate about 1.2 billion video streams, based on a study from an outside consultant.

That’s a lot of content that YouTube will be missing soon. Let’s see how it plays out in court if it goes that far.

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