VIACOM LAUNCHES BILLION DOLLAR SUIT AGAINST YOUTUBE

I felt it necessary to follow up on what I wrote about last week with the Microsoft and Google copyright problem. Every since Google got YouTube it has been nothing but trouble and has had many suits filed against it for copyright problems. This case is Viacom suing Google for $1 billion dollars. It has said that Google has purposely allowed videos that are copyrighted to be posted on YouTube and has even use some of the clips of the videos to attract people to the website. Now Google says there is a copyright law that protects Google from what their users post, problem is they seem to be more involved in what their posters put up then not aware. Google says they hope to one day pay of these big media companies with what they made on the site. Viacom is not the only one upset with youtube as a lot of different media sites continue finding their copyrighted material on Youtube and don't see it going away, though none have gone as far as Viacom. It is a big burden on every media company out there to have to search this one website for their material to make sure it is not on there. The most confusing part is that Google feels they are completely safe and within the laws. So how on earth is this going to turn out? Well honestly I don't know but I do know this, if now when Internet is at it's peek and growing, this site is causing this many problems between this many companies and Google, how many problems do you think it is going to cause in a couple years when Internet is like brushing your teeth, EVERYONE does it EVERYDAY at least three times. Some people go on the Internet more than 20 times a day. The amount of material that will be on YouTube will be doubled and from all around the world. United States won't be the only country having major problems with YouTube and Google anymore. I enjoy YouTube as much as the next individual but if it is causes this much trouble and is clearly violating laws then i say get rid of it. If Viacom does win this $1 billion dollar lawsuit Google might have to start thinking about getting rid of it.