Why Viacom wants to destroy YouTube

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May 28, 20081 min

Viacom wants to take YouTube down.

It’s not a copyright matter, either, but a competitive one, Cringely explains, because Viacom is terrified of YouTube chipping away at the future of cable and broadcast television: Internet video.

“Like most everything on earth, it all comes down to money. Not just the billion Viacom is suing for — the tens of billions that will come later, when we all have IP-driven TVs that get their content off the Web,” Cringely writes in Whose Tube is it, anyway? “Even if Viacom wins this battle, they’ll lose the war. The question is, what will we lose in the meantime?”