March 14, 2007 10:36 AM PDT
Coop's Corner Podcast: The hypocrisy about Web video
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The outrage in some quarters triggered by Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube betrays a less obvious bias.
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In the aftermath of Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, there is a silly notion making the rounds that Viacom is making a terrible business mistake. Viacom's critics are snorting mad. They maintain that by demanding that YouTube pull purloined videos off its service, Viacom is only hurting itself because the Google-owned video-sharing site is a "promotional vehicle."
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper has something to say about that--as well as a few other woolly headed notions that have come to be embraced by otherwise right-thinking folks.
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