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Give me liberty, or give me a big, fat settlement

It's rumored that, after going out and dropping a wad on YouTube, Google then turned around and negotiated a six-month moratorium with the major media outlets: six months for the search engine-turned-content-provider to deal with the copyright violations running rampant on the phenomenally popular site. Reports of thousands of clips being taken down have followed. Though, to be fair, that's hard to verify given the expansive nature of YouTube's offerings.

November 1, 2006

It's rumored that, after going out and dropping a wad on YouTube, Google then turned around and negotiated a six-month moratorium with the major media outlets: six months for the search engine-turned-content-provider to deal with the copyright violations running rampant on the phenomenally popular site. Reports of thousands of clips being taken down have followed. Though, to be fair, that's hard to verify given the expansive nature of YouTube's offerings.