Every eMedia pundit will be saying “told you so” today as Viacom, owner of the once decent, but now reduced to crap MTV, announced to the world that they are about to take YouTube to the cleaners to the MTV enhanced tune of $1,000,000,000 - yep thats a B. Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times. Google says it is “confident” that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders. Confident in this case really means they are wondering what the hell they should do to fix this issue - hmmm, lets see if Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central accidentally fall off the the Google spider list… Yeah, that might fix it.

Of course Google should be confident - the videos below have nothing to do with MTV:

Lets see how long these clips are available for…