[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10399610.stm[/url]
[quote]Google has won a landmark ruling as a judge threw out a $1bn lawsuit brought by Viacom accusing the internet giant of allowing copyrighted material on its YouTube service without permission.
Viacom had accused Google of "massive intentional copyright infringement".
But the Manhattan judge said Google and YouTube could not be held liable merely for having a "general awareness" that videos might be posted illegally.
Media conglomerate Viacom said it planned to appeal against the decision.
Google called the ruling "an important victory".[/quote]
owned~
Good. Now I hope that BPI fucks off the same way.
Can't Google just remove Viacom from youtube?
They take down things they don't even own.
Victory!
Suck it Viacom.
Fucking viacom
Horrible case really, they have a knowledge that users might place copyrighted content on their servers even though they remove them if requested and even have a user agreement so they don't so it. I'm not surprised it was thrown out.
Hahaha what a bunch of losers.
The whole copyrighting shit on youtube is getting annoying, though.
Who the fuck are Viacom? I've seen them take down a lot of shit from YouTube that in no way could be related. If anything Google should sue them for claiming copyright on copyrighted material that's not theirs.
[QUOTE=PieClock;22846295]Who the fuck are Viacom? I've seen them take down a lot of shit from YouTube that in no way could be related. If anything Google should sue them for claiming copyright on copyrighted material that's not theirs.[/QUOTE]
They are a huge company, the reason you don't see their label is because they own many smaller companies.
It's assets are, currently: Viacom International, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Go Fish Pictures, Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick@Nite, Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nick Jr., MTV, VH1, MTV2, Nick2, Tr3s, CMT, Palladia, Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets, MTV New Media, Teletoon and YTV.
[QUOTE=CheeseMan;22846353]They are a huge company, the reason you don't see their label is because they own many smaller companies.
It's assets are, currently: Viacom International, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Go Fish Pictures, Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick@Nite, Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nick Jr., MTV, VH1, MTV2, Nick2, Tr3s, CMT, Palladia, Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets, MTV New Media, Teletoon and YTV.[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck.
Not to mention I believe they also used to own CBS
EDIT: Yes, from 2000 to 2005 they owned CBS
Basically they're a parent corporation
[QUOTE=CheeseMan;22846353]They are a huge company, the reason you don't see their label is because they own many smaller companies.
It's assets are, currently: Viacom International, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Go Fish Pictures, Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick@Nite, Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nick Jr., MTV, VH1, MTV2, Nick2, Tr3s, CMT, Palladia, Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets, MTV New Media, Teletoon and YTV.[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck
[code]Paramount Motion Pictures Group Inc.
Paramount Vantage
Paramount Pictures International
MTV Films
Nickelodeon Movies
Paramount Home Entertainment
United International Pictures
Republic Pictures
MTV
MTV2
MTV Tr3́s
MTV Desi
MTV Hits
MTV Jams
mtvU
Palladia
Nickelodeon
Nick 2
Nick Jr.
TeenNick
Nicktoons Network
Nick GAS
TV Land
TV Land Canada
CMT
CMT Pure Country
CMT (Canada)
Spike
VH1
VH1 Classic
VH1 Soul
BET
BET Hip-Hop
BET Gospel
BET UK
Centric
Comedy Central
Logo
TMF
VIVA
MTVi Group
Nickelodeon Online
BET.com
Neopets
GameTrailers
Xfire
GoCityKids
Atom Entertainment
Quizilla
Viacom Consumer Products
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
MTVN Direct
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Viacom International, Inc.[/code]
I was wrong, THIS is the complete list of current assets.
[editline]10:04PM[/editline]
Yes they own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Food for thought
[release]On October 21, 2009 it was announced that cable channel Nickelodeon (a subsidiary of Viacom) had purchased all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.[/release]
Viacom is just jealous of youtube success. Why can't they just put up their own shows on the internet if they hate Youtube so much
Youtube is such a massive website with a huge volume of videos being uploaded and viewed. They've tried to stop copyrighted stuff using automatic methods, which can easily be bypassed by speeding up or slowing down the track slightly.
Viacom's pretty stupid for thinking it's practical for Google to screen every video for copyrighted material before authorising it, or whatever they're implying. In any case it's not even Google's fault for the copyright material, it's the uploaders who are at wrong.
Viacom needs to just fuck off already, there is not one person on the planet who appreciates what they're doing to the already fucked up Youtube.
They own XFire?
Shit!
Good, but I fear that this is not the end.
They own Gametrailers ? Well that makes sense.
Google ALWAYS wins.
Viacom owns Bubba Gump Shrimp?
where did the love go
what a whiny bitch viacom is.
[QUOTE=Zarfa;22847572]They own Gametrailers ? Well that makes sense.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.viacom.com/ourbrands/medianetworks/mtvnetworks/Pages/gametrailers.aspx[/url]
I didn't believe it either
Oh and for Xfire
[url]http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisition/[/url]
[editline]12:58AM[/editline]
Basically they bought it for $102 MILLION dollars
Yes! Can they still take YouTube vids down?
[QUOTE=BCell;22846455]Viacom is just jealous of youtube success. Why can't they just put up their own shows on the internet if they hate Youtube so much[/QUOTE]
They do, they just put a metric fuckton of advertising around and before their videos. It's one of the main reasons they started issuing the letters.
There is a viacom video upload site, they fucking upload all the awesome youtube videos to it.
Now all we need is Warner Bros. to fuck off Youtube as well..
I never knew Viacom owned Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
[QUOTE=PieClock;22846295]Who the fuck are Viacom? I've seen them take down a lot of shit from YouTube that in no way could be related. If anything Google should sue them for claiming copyright on copyrighted material that's not theirs.[/QUOTE]
They own most of the good TV channels.
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