Did Google Want Youtube To Be Sued?

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In his article, "Maybe Google Wanted to be Sued: YouTube and Plan B, Michi knows explores whether a lawsuit fit into Google's plans for Youtube and the copyright dilemma:

"No matter how you spun it, a lawsuit was waiting to pounce on YouTube. And when the lawsuit came, it would be from multi-billion dollar media conglomerates. Worst of all, people feared it will trigger a landslide of more lawsuits. And even still, Google bought YouTube. And now the billion dollar war has begun.

And I wondered: Maybe Google actually wanted to be sued."

...Plan A was to hope people would be nice and look the other way. That worked for a year so far, and Google hoped it would continue. Plan B was to get sued.

This isn’t any ordinary “get sued and win” plan. Waiting to get sued so you can win in court is a defensive move for most companies. But for Google, this is preemptive. This is about Google defending YouTube, instead of YouTube defending YouTube.

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