Sad news… On March 12th 2007, Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) has filed a lawsuit against YouTube claiming that YouTube allowed it’s users upload and share over a 100,000 videos owned by Viacom. Viacom’s lawsuit seeks $1 BILLION in damages. The word is this whole house of cards may crash as soon as this summer and either way the lawsuit goes, YouTube will not be the same. Just like we’ve seen Napster fade away, YouTube may be facing the same fate. Sad news, YouTube has become a very important part of most people’s life. I hope Google, being the owner of YouTube can come up with something to keep YouTube unchanged but we’ll see what happens.

You can read the official court documents that have been released here: http://tcrn.ch/ab5xDi