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February 02, 2007
Cash of the Titans: Viacom gags Google?
The same actor who provided the voice for the old Viacom tag [rummmmbbbbble... VI-uh-commmm] as for Darth Vader [I am the holder of your intellectual property, in all media now known or to be discovered in perpetuity, Luke]: "Viacom has demanded that Google Inc.'s online video service YouTube pull down all of its video clips after they failed to reach an agreement, the company said. About 100,000 video clips from Viacom-owned properties including MTV Networks and BET has been asked to be removed. Viacom said its [allegedly] pirated programs on YouTube generate about 1.2 billion video streams, based on a study from an [unnamed] outside consultant." Does that mean that the 83-year old Sumner M. Redstone runs a big, big company and has big, big lawyers and big, big ambitious for the first quarter of 2007? Maybeeee... [Photo via the final entry on the lamentably lost "Kaiju Shakedown" Asian movie blog. You are missed, Mr. Hendrix.]
Posted by Ray Pride at February 2, 2007 11:48 AM
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