Another batch of entertaining internal emails have been released as part of the ongoing Viacom v YouTube copyright infringement case. Both sides are attacking the other for some of the navvy-grade language. Viacom highlights cases of YouTube employees writing things like “I hate making it easier for these a-holes” while calling rightsholders “copyright bastards”. Meanwhile, Google points to internal Viacom emails saying “f*** you, you Google bastards” and “F*** those mother f***ers” (we’ve added the asterisks to try to get this Bulletin past your corporate firewall). The most comic email has to be a Viacom staffer calling YouTube “f***ing assholes” because they enforced their repeat infringer policy for a Viacom marketing account on YouTube that had attracted multiple takedown notices from… Viacom’s legal departmment! Source: Ars Technica
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