YOUR YouTube FIX: Bitch, You Got Sued!

Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion today in the biggest challenge yet to the Web search leader's strategy to dominate the online video market.

The lawsuit accuses Google and its popular online video unit of "massive intentional copyright infringement," threatening its ambitions to turn YouTube into a major distributor of entertainment and outlet for advertising.

Viacom, home to the MTV and Comedy Central channels, contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming have been uploaded onto YouTube's site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

Could this mean the end of Laguna Beach YouTube clips?
I <3 Laguna 4-Evah.

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