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Is Perez Hilton a pawn in Google’s war?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

After having his account suspended for what YouTube said was a history of repeated copyright violations, uber celebrity-blogger Perez Hilton has announced that he is pulling all of his videos from the site and will henceforth only be posting them to perezhilton.com. YouTube says that it is merely ... Continue reading »

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  • Karoli

    1 year ago

    Any lawyer with half a brain would have advised Google to pull those accounts. With a pending lawsuit with Viacom over copyright infringement, the last thing Google needs is a bunch of videos with Viacom content where rights are unverified. I would have expected Google to pull them.

    In a case like that, it really does make sense for Perez Hilton to assume the liability on his own, particularly with the amount of traffic driven to that site. Let him assume the liability.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    You're probably right, Karoli.
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  • Jim Kukral

    1 year ago

    I believe the most shocking thing about that TV week piece is that he's pushing 25 million views of his videos and he's only earned $5k? Wow.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    yeah, I found that kind of hard to believe too.
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  • Tinkerbell the Chihuahua

    1 year ago

    FIRST!!!!!!! xoxoxo

    But seriously, since many people find Lavandeira objectionable as a person (much less his site) I think that the corporate underpinnings of the "affair" might have been overlooked had you not brought them up.
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