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Google had to spend $100 million to defend against Viacom suit

article published on 17 July, 2010

According to Google CFO Patrick Pichetter, the search giant had to spend about $100 million to defend itself from Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against video giant YouTube. It is important to note that the case did not even make it to trial so the expected attorney's fees would likely have been much higher. Last month, a judge threw out the case, saying Google was protected ... [ read the full article ]

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Ryoohki
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_ 		17. July 2010 @ 17:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
who cares. 100M is just a drop in the bucket for google
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DVDBack23
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_ 		18. July 2010 @ 00:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Ryoohki:
 who cares. 100M is just a drop in the bucket for google
Guess the real question is how much did Viacom spend to lose the case?
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llongtheD
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_ 		19. July 2010 @ 01:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Didn't even make it to trial and they spent 100 million on attorney's fees? All of these lawyers, and all of these lawsuits make this country so much better don't they?
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aldan
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_ 		19. July 2010 @ 17:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
100 mil that they will likely recover from viacom.
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_ 		20. July 2010 @ 03:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by llongtheD:
 Didn't even make it to trial and they spent 100 million on attorney's fees? All of these lawyers, and all of these lawsuits make this country so much better don't they?
It is unfortunate, but that is how corporations work. The whole point of this lawsuit was to waist the time and money of google. Meanwhile, Viacom is stealing media from google and posting it on their own sites...so we might see the mirror of this lawsuit sometime soon.
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