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Viacom's Redstone Just Hedging Google/YouTube Bets?
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From Internet Oursider
One massive old media conglomerate, Viacom, is so outraged about Google’s "willful copyright infringement" that it is suing Google for $1 billion. Another massive old media conglomerate, CBS, finds Google so easy and fair to deal with that it has struck a major clip-distribution deal. Is this strange? Only because both conglomerates are run by the same man.
Possible interpretations:
- Sumner Redstone really has gotten absent-minded in his later years.
- Les Moonves actually does run CBS.
- Phillippe Dauman actually does run Viacom.
- Sumner Redstone still is a clever fellow…one who wants to continue to gather as much information as possible while he decides what to do about YouTube.
Interpretation 1 is possible, but unlikely. Interpretations 2 and 3 are inconceivable. So my money’s on No. 4.
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