Loading ...Googles $1.65 Billion Copyright Infringement
It seems that Google has purchased more than just the world’s most popular video sharing website. It also purchased $1.65 billion worth of copyright infringement cases.
Since the purchase of YouTube.com by Google, numerous media firms and other owners of copyrighted video are banging on YouTube’s door to remove these works from the YouTube website. In one day YouTube was asked to pull 30,000 videos from a single organization. YouTube complied as it has with the multitude of others that have requested the same. This is becoming a daily occurrence for the video sharing giant. At the current rate at which YouTube is removing copyrighted videos from its website, it won’t be long before the YouTube as we know it today becomes a mere shadow of its former self.
Google has apparently acquired itself a huge legal mess. You would think that a company such as Google, when spending $1.65 billion on an acquisition, would do several million dollars worth of research prior to the acquisition to determine that there weren’t any significant pending legal issues. Right? Did Google know what they were getting themselves into? Maybe.
Time will tell if YouTube and Google will weather the legal storm ahead of them and as a result continue to operate YouTube as we know it. (c) 2006 ElectroGeek.com
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