Viacom Caught In Humorous Hypocrisy

[V-Man339]

Viacom PWNED on Piracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1PIICmNlH0

So Viacom said YouTube owed them some money back in 2007. OK. Fine. But Viacom? You owe Jonathan Coulton 37 dollars, at least according to this entertaining, well-reasoned rant.

 

[<RJMC>]

*some days later*

news: famous internet music star jhonatan coulton was found dead in is house whit multiple gunshot wounds,he was having a lawsuit against the media company viacom which due to the death of the artist viacom is not forced to pay the lawsuit

 

[Yuri]

as obnoxious as that video is, pretty great rant

 

[YROC]

I like that guy because he has books organized on shelves.

 

[morgs]

I also noted his books, I must say it earns him some respect.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Follow-up by aforementioned "Hank" person:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCBLmhh2qPE

 

[Remus]

Hahah "Hank" looks like John Carmack, except without the squeaky voice.

 

[Jintor]

So give me the gist of the video, because I hate the guy's voice but I want to hear what's up with JoCo

 

[Krynn72]

He said that Spike hosted the first guy's video and made some money off it, and hes asking for lawyers to contact him so they can sue Viacom.

 

[V-Man339]

He said that Spike hosted the first guy's video and made some money off it, and hes asking for lawyers to contact him so they can sue Viacom.

The thing is, they're making a point of the fact that they could sue Viacom for trillions of dollars by going off the logic of how much money was "theoretically" lost like Viacom themselves do. Or, as he suggested, sue them for the 37 real dollars he lost by advertising, which would be like Viacom suing for 5 bucks for song.

 

[Krynn72]

I know.

 

[Unfocused]

Don't know about you guys, but I am annoyed by this trend where someone is giving a speech/ranting/whatever and there's a cut every 3-5 seconds. Maybe it's supposed to make it more dynamic and I guess it's easier to do retakes that way, but nevertheless it's annoying.

There's some other American-Italian looking dude on youtube that's a prime example, but his nickname escapes me atm.

 

[StardogChampion]

Don't know about you guys, but I am annoyed by this trend where someone is giving a speech/ranting/whatever and there's a cut every 3-5 seconds. Maybe it's supposed to make it more dynamic and I guess it's easier to do retakes that way, but nevertheless it's annoying.

Yeah, I stopped watching after the first two cuts.