Premier League Sues YouTube May 7, 2007
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YouTube is in hot water again as the Premier League want its cut from all those footie clips that find their way onto the service.
In a lawsuit filed in New York, the Premier League has claimed that YouTube has ‘knowingly’ lifted video of games and encouraged folk to come watch it on the site. Viacom is already suing Google-owned YouTube for a $1bn (£500m) for allegedly showing 160,000 clips of its TV shows without paying for the privilege. The lawsuit said:
“YouTube bills itself as “the leading destination on the Internet for video entertainment” and boasts millions of monthly visitors to its website. In the operation of its website, YouTube copies and electronically disseminates, on a massive and wide-ranging scale, content including the valuable intellectual property of the class.”
It’s hard to feel sorry for the Premier League though since its been practicing price gouging of its own through the clubs, on fans, for years.-Martin Lynch
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Youtube is getting ruined.
you do know that pics not from the premier league, that from when he cried like a girl in the Portugal England game that knocked us out because of a biased referee