YouTube and Viacom in screeching legal catfight: Bring popcorn

Roll up, roll up! Getcher meat in a bun 'ere! Grab a flag, pick a side and enjoy a good old-fashioned legal bustup between two media titans. Viacom has been suing Google for some three years, claiming YouTube intentionally failed to restrict the uploading of its copyrighted material. The judge in the case has just made a tonne of material public, with Viacom claiming internal emails show YouTube benefited enormously from copyright material. YouTube, for its part, claims Viacom paid marketing companies to upload its material anonymously, and that the lawsuit is motivated by Viacom's failure to purchase the site. It's a right old ding-dong and no mistake. Greg Sandoval has the full story at CNET News: Viacom, Google air dirty laundry in court docs.