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Viacom demanda a Google y YouTube 1.000 millones de dólares

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief March 14, 2007 · 1 min read

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Hace no mucho tiempo, Google compró YouTube por $1.6 mil millones. Después de eso, YouTube se vio inundado con quejas y demandas. Justo ahora, el propietario de MTV, Viacom, está atacando a Google+YouTube.

Viacom Inc. anunció el martes que ha demandado a YouTube y a su matriz corporativa Google Inc. en un tribunal federal por presunta infracción de derechos de autor, y busca más de 1 mil millones de dólares en daños.

Viacom afirma que más de 160,000 clips de video no autorizados de sus redes por cable, que también incluyen Comedy Central, VH1 y Nickelodeon, han estado disponibles en el popular sitio web de intercambio de videos.

La demanda marca una escalada significativa de las tensiones latentes entre Viacom y YouTube. El mes pasado, Viacom exigió a YouTube que eliminara más de 100,000 clips no autorizados después de que varias meses de conversaciones entre las empresas se rompieran.

Si Google no hubiera comprado YouTube, creo que Viacom no habría presentado esta demanda. Esos mil millones de dólares en daños equivalen a casi dos tercios del valor total del servicio de intercambio de videos.

YouTube se está convirtiendo en una gran carga para el gigante de la búsqueda. Deberían haber calculado el "riesgo de demandas" y haberlo incluido en el valor de adquisición.

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21 Comments

Rosy Batterton · 14 years ago

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Jam · 19 years ago

Yeah, I would agree that Google, itself, was the main reason why they sued the search giant. YouTube was not a good investment for Google after all.

pinoymoneytalk · 19 years ago

Add: $326 million .. for now. Of course, anytime from today they can sell more Google shares and pocket more cash.

@gwapito.com, the YouTube owners still own YouTube, they are not “former” owners.

pinoymoneytalk · 19 years ago

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Gwapito.com says:

Now the former owner(s) of Youtube are laughing while watching the news on their beds covered 1 billion dollars they got from Google.
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Not $1 billion, just a little less than $400 million. ;)

I read before that the 2 YouTube guys sold more than $326 million of Google shares in February. The rest are still held as Google shares. A million dollars is already too much for most of us, but three-hundred-(f-word-here)-million-dollars? Whoa.

These YouTube guys are probably thinking, ‘Whatever. Even if Google takes down YouTube or YouTube pays whatever Viacom wants, I’m going home with my hundred million dollars.’

Jonas Diego · 19 years ago

I agree with Jhay. Google is going to make more money outta YouTube in the longrun but they really got to find some way around the copyright infringement brouhaha because if VIACOM does win the lawuit, you’re gonna see other companies with real or imagined similar issues lining up with lawsuits themselves hoping to get a piece of the action.

jhay · 19 years ago

Yup, YouTube is the MTV in today’s ‘new media’ world. Maybe they should just hire the YouTube directors to make music videos instead.

They may win the billion-dollar lawsuit, but in the long run, Google will still make lots of money out of YouTube.

Alex · 19 years ago

Maybe that’s why former Tube owners cashed in on their stocks. Now they’re safely out. Great move for those guys.

Maybe Viacom’s just pissed because Google is now defining what’s cool instead of MTV.

Wauks · 19 years ago

OMG >.

Gwapito.com · 19 years ago

Now the former owner(s) of Youtube are laughing while watching the news on their beds covered 1 billion dollars they got from Google.

Allie · 19 years ago

I agree, it sounds like YouTube is going to cost a lot more than 1.6 Billion. This was definitely a pretty risky purchase, as Mark Cuban noted when it happened.

I think YouTube, being a source of so much piracy, has scared a lot of content creators. They have yet to really embrace the web, even though it’s obvious that cable-bypass, on demand, “over the top service is the future.

Maybe this lawsuit will scare off other violators, and get things on track.

– Allie