Well, it happened. YouTube is facing a $1 billion+ lawsuit from Viacom today. It was known that YouTube would eventually face at least one major lawsuit, and Viacom - which had already pulled 100,000 clips from the site, was perhaps the most likely to take a distaste to the company
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You get home from a long day at work, flop down on the couch, crack open a cold lager and flip on the TV. Clicking through your own personal programming guide — no more having to scroll past endless movie channels or cooking networks you’ve never watched — you settle on a surfing show.A massive wave forms and you shoot your brother an instant message: “watch this.”
With a view to halting the plethora of copyright cases and complaints brought against YouTube, Google will soon offer anti-piracy technology for copyright holders to prevent their content being shown on the site.
Not two weeks after Viacom served YouTube with a major smackdown, Viacom has announced it is getting cozy with new Internet Television company Joost, and will provide free programming from MTV, BET, and Paramount Pictures.
Bebo, the social network that’s been hot on the heels of MySpace in the UK market, has now overtaken MySpace in weekly visits, according to Hitwise.
