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South Park Weakens Viacom Argument Against YouTube

by Mike Abundo on April 5th, 2008

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman must be masturbating furiously right now. South Park just ran an episode where a whole bunch of YouTube stars get slaughtered. South Park is a Viacom show, and Viacom is suing YouTube for $1 billion. This YouTube massacre must be wish-fulfillment for Daumann.

Thing is, Viacom argues that YouTube’s success came from Viacom shows. By acknowledging non-Viacom YouTube stars, South Park just weakened Viacom’s argument. Dauman might want to stop jerking off long enough to realize that.

(Via Valleywag.)

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