Thread: YouTube wins court case against Viacom

I agree in my opinion if Google didn't win it would have gone against freedom of speech and the amendment

Originally Posted by thebigc

As a former Viacom intern, let me just say that their whole Manhattan operation is based on unpaid labor. The building that houses MTV and VH1 (among others) couldn't function without the army of unpaid students that work long houses to hold that place together. It seemed like interns made up a third of the labor base. All the low-level (and very important) tasks were done by them.

It's interesting that a company so hard-line about getting paid for content has absolutely no problem with unpaid labor.

My mother actually consults there and I have to say that I agree with you completely.

I don't think this will help out the torrent world. Google most likely won because it has a lot of pull being such a huge corporation. Smaller sites won't be as lucky IMO.

Yes, I think companies like Viacom are wasting money on these lawsuits. As the saying goes, you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

It's insane. The companies spend millions of dollars a year, trying to avoid "pirating", but in most of the cases they don't get anything. I wonder how long this situation will last. They just want more money so they can't buy another jet or something superficial like that.

youtube ftw man !
lol anyone have musicvids invite ? haha
viacom cant win aganist the giant google and this also applies to record labels !