Viacom sues Google

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 by Dave Winer.

The big news in the tech blogosphere today is Viacom suing Google over YouTube.  

Obviously this is a negotiation, either that or Viacom is jumping off the bridge and hoping that the fall doesn't kill them.  

On 2/28/07 I observed that the entertainment industry is comfortable negotiating with the tech industry, but that's not the negotiation that matters -- they should negotiate with users, because ultimately that's how the matter of whether or not they have a future will be decided.  

"Might there not have been a way to make hay out of the lemonade?" 

Mike Arrington: "They said that Google's acquisition of YouTube would be the act that saved it from the fate of Napster - lawsuit oblivion. And they may have been wrong,"