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Viacom sues Google + Youtube for $1 Billion

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

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Hindi pa matagal, Google bumili ng YouTube sa presyong $1.6 Bilyon. Pagkatapos nito, ang YouTube ay puno na ng mga reklamo at kaso. Ngayong oras, ang may-ari ng MTV na si Viacom ay tumutugon sa Google+YouTube.

Sinabi ng Viacom Inc. noong Martes na ito ay nagkasuhan sa YouTube at ang kanyang korporatibong magulang Google Inc. sa federal court dahil sa inakusang paglabag sa karapatang-ari at humihingi ng higit sa $1 billion bilang pinsala.

Ayon sa Viacom, higit sa 160,000 na walang pahintulot na video clips mula sa kanyang mga cable network, na kasama ang Comedy Central, VH1 at Nickelodeon, ay naging available sa popular na website para sa pagbabahagi ng video.

Ang kasong ito ay nagpapakita ng malakas na eskalamasyon ng matagal nang umiiral na tensyon sa pagitan ng Viacom at YouTube. Noong nakaraang buwan, humingi ang Viacom na tanggalin ng YouTube higit sa 100,000 na walang pahintulot na clips pagkatapos ng ilang buwang usapan na nabigo.

Kung hindi bumili si Google ng YouTube, akala ko ay hindi mag-file ng kaso ang Viacom. Halos dalawang-katlo ng kabuuang halaga ng serbisyo sa pagbabahagi ng video ang $1 billion na binabayaran bilang pinsala.

Ang YouTube ay naging malaking bigat para sa gantong tagapaghanap. Dapat nilang kumalkula ng "risgo ng mga kaso sa korte" at isama ito sa halaga ng pagkuha.

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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