YouTube Vs. Viacom: Not Looking Good for YouTube

The ongoing war between Viacom and YouTube parent company Google just escalated a notch. Viacom is looking to extract $1 billion out of YouTube and Google for illegally hosting copyrighted Viacom content. Eriq Gardner at THR, Esq. got a hold of Viacom’s summary judgment motion, which contains some rather incriminating internal memos from both YouTube and Google execs — memos that appear to show execs knowingly let users upload copyrighted content in an effort to grow their site at all costs.

YouTube’s Steve Chen in particular was fairly blatant about voicing his desire to host copyrighted content on the site.

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