Who the h**l is Viacom?

Question

everytime I go to youtube and try to watch my favorite shows, guess what, "removed due to a copyright claim by viacom". Personally I think that youtube officially SUCKS now. 1st every noob is posting fake videos to trick good people like you and me, and now this. I wish this copyright claim c**p didnt exist.

Answer 1

Viacom is a corp. that owns the rights to broadcast certain tv shows. Say Viacom owns the rights to broadcast "Seinfeld", you have to pay Viacom to broadcast "Seinfeld". If you don't, you're breaking the law because the corp. and the writers are not getting paid for their work. That's why they order certain things to be taken off of Youtube; they receive no money from Youtube.