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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
OK, if I've ever said anything to the contrary, I take it back. Americans are more litigious. But luckily, some of those being litigated against have the feistiness and bucks to counter-punch, as Google is now doing.
In my view, all this means is that Google needs to step up efforts to remove proprietary content. It seems unlikely that Viacom will win outright, so the final settlement amount, if any, was probably something Google budgeted for when it acquired YouTube in an atmosphere of "YouTube - you'll never get away with it!" rhetoric. (Remember how PayPal would "never survive"?)
Sad but true, Mike Masnick correctly observes that many old media companies still view the Internet as a "broadcast platform."
We'll take a brief recess to ponder the death of the TV-industrial complex...
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Andrew Goodman
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D'oh!
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