Viacom asked YouTube to remove 100,000 videos

Recently, US media conglomerate Viacom has asked Google's YouTube online video sharing service to remove more than 100,000 of their videos because of a disagreement on distribution agreements.

According to that Viacom asked YouTube to take down the videos from Viacom-owned parts, including on MTV Network and BET. The US media giant said the number of their videos was copyright infringement on YouTube, according to an external adviser that has approximately 1.2 billion video clips.

A spokeswoman for YouTube said they were ready to "take the game" according to Viacom's wishes and added: ' Only regret is that from now on Viacom will no longer benefit from the very enthusiastic YouTube audience who have contributing to the success of Viacom's programs '. To complete their "will", YouTube also took hours to remove the videos.

Viacom's side expressed a stern stance on YouTube: ' YouTube and Google filters have promised to come down but still have no effect. They still store and float lots of illegal movies '.

In October last year, Viacom also asked YouTube to remove some of its videos, including those from very successful programs on the Comedy Central cable network. Even so, thousands of videos still exist on YouTube.

Viacom said: 'YouTube and Google have' embraced 'the profits from their business without compensating for the fairness of those who have spent much of their time making the content. Adding YouTube content to Google Video Search has recently made this problem worse . '

It is unclear which of the 100 million views per day on YouTube, the percentage of Viacom's movies.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said YouTube is still in the process of implementing technology such as digital 'fingerprinting' technology that identifies copyrighted videos. He said: ' This is a field of scale research in the computer science community and is also invested significantly in Google '.

Viacom's move this time also wants to counteract the business strategy of other media companies such as Warner Music, Universal Music and General Electric. All have signed a contract with YouTube to test the online video sharing service.

Even CBS, a subsidiary separated from Viacom, also became a YouTube partner. Not only that, CBS also organized a contest for YouTube customers to compete with 'homemade' movies. The winners will be screened on CBS television.

While some companies decided to test services with YouTube, other companies like News Corp., NBC and Viacom wanted to build their own online video service.

Do Duong