If you’ve been meaning to squirrel away some of those YouTube clips, now would be a very good time to do so.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Viacom orders YouTube to remove unauthorized clips
By Jonathan Thaw
Bloomberg News
Published February 2, 2007, 11:23 AM CSTViacom Inc., the media company controlled by billionaire Sumner Redstone, demanded Google Inc.’s YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized videos from the site.
YouTube isn’t willing to reach a “fair market agreement” that would make Viacom’s content available to its users, New York-based Viacom said in an e-mailed statement today.
The clash highlights the challenge San Bruno, California- based YouTube faces from media companies that say YouTube is gaining viewers from content the site hasn’t paid for. Google said when it bought YouTube in November that it set aside more than $200 million in stock from the $1.65 billion purchase price to protect against lawsuits.
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“We’ve ordered YouTube to take down everything that we could identify as copyrighted Viacom content,” spokesman Carl Folta said in an interview. YouTube hasn’t started using software to block unauthorized clips, which the site had promised to do, Viacom said.
I just want to state for the record that nobody has replied to this in 10 hours because the entire fanbase has been busy frantically ripping vids off YouTube.
The play-by-play on the Colboard is like watching CNN on 9/11. “They took down the pirate toss!” is the new “the second tower collapsed!”.
(‘course, I’m only contributing to the hysteria)
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