It seemes that Viacom is'nt too happy about Youtube posting their programs and movies such as, "Spongebob Squarepants", and many other adult-orientated shows such as "South Park" and "The Colbert Report". The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan, for the un-authorizated videos from Viacom's programs. Nearly 160,000 clips of their shows/movies have been posted and have been viewed more than a billion times. Youtube failed to take reasonable-precautions to the copy-righted videos on their site. For those who don't know Youtube is a webiste for people around the globe to share videos from life, TV, movies, concerts etc. Viacom accused Youtube for amassing a very large library of their un-licensed programming. "Youtube is a significant for-profit organization that has built a lucrative busniess out of exploiting the devotion if fans to others' creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google", Viacom said in their statement. "Their bussiness model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising iff unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and in obvious conflict with copyright laws." Viacom is able to claim $150,000  for each "bootlegged" copy of it's television shows. Just last month, Viacom ordered youtube to take down over 100,000 copies of its cable programming. Carl Folta speaker on behalf of Viacom says "They keep saying, it's difficult." "Well, if it's difficult, hire people. If it's difficult, shut your site down until you get it right.", other such as Microsoft inc. have taken steps to respect their copy-rights.

Well, that must be why people are so pissed off over on Youtube. I mean people are screaming at the top of their lungs wondering why Youtube is deleting some videos, but they don't relize that if they kept the videos on Youtube would lose their court case, and their site would shut down. So people don't be pissed at Youtube they did nothing wrong, nor blame Viacom they're just taking off their copy-righted programs on Youtube.

(The article in paragraph one was information retrived from New York's "The Post Standard". Most info was used in the paragraph and it's article is written by their respectful owners.)