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Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:26 am
by BlackFox898
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users...
Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
Source:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/18/yo ... secre.htmlcan't wait to see what unfolds
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:45 am
by bot_antist
damn it
I
VIACOM!!
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:56 am
by Skyve
Whats Viacom?
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:01 am
by BlackFox898
ExSoldier wrote:Whats Viacom?
they control the copyrights of almost all shows.
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:38 am
by MrFudge
BlackFox898 wrote:ExSoldier wrote:Whats Viacom?
they control the copyrights of almost all shows.
No, I own Viacom stock and they do not own almost all shows.
In fact, they suck compared to Time Warner and Walt Disney.
I can tell you this, I'm losing money because MTV, VH1, and BET have awful ratings.
I saw a $1 boost per share of stock because of the Jersey Shore, the only thing keeping Viacom stock up is Paramount Pictures with Ironman and Avatar.
Viacom can go f*ck itself.
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:58 am
by cpinney
bot_antist wrote:damn it
I
VIACOM!!
no
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:03 pm
by CeLL
sell sell sell.
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:35 pm
by bot_antist
cpinney wrote:bot_antist wrote:damn it
I
VIACOM!!
no
i like slapping
Re: Viacom gonna get owned!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:59 pm
by TheDrop
owned?