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| Amusing... I find this all amusing, actually. 2 big corporations at odds... not what we're used to with previous David/Goliath scenarios.
Anyway, the paidcontent articles has this line:
Viacom wants a deal similar to those already reached by music labels and CBS Is this the deal from last October? »www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-···ls_x.htm If so, the problem might be that back then YouTube was pre-Google and more amenable to making deals. Or it could be that Viacom wants a similar but somehow better deal that wouldn't have worked then, either. I dunno.
Anyway, the current request to pull the videos is probably intended as leverage only... part of the bargaining process.
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