Viacom-YouTube Trial Airs Dirty Laundry

After 3 years of back-and-forth court battles of Viacom versus YouTube after the media conglomerate was unable to purchase the video sharing site (and was outbid by Google), the court documents that were previously unavailable to the public are finally ready to be seen by America…and they aren’t pretty. Think YouTube called Viacom “a jilted lover,” if jilted lovers created lots of fake accounts, didn’t even know which clips belonged to them (we all remember when we could watch The Colbert Report and MTV clips on YouTube?) and in a final, desperate attempt, tried to partner with Google on the deal but were told to back off.

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