From Viacom: By their own admission, the site contained "truckloads" of infringing content and founder Steve Chen explained that YouTube needed to "steal" video

From Viacom: By their own admission, the site contained "truckloads" of infringing content and founder Steve Chen explained that YouTube needed to "steal" videos because those videos make "our traffic soar." If true, that's pretty damning. From Viacom: These facts are undisputed. The statements by Google regarding Viacom activities are merely red herrings and have no relevance on the legal facts of this case. Um, really? From Google: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony e-mail addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. So let's make an analogy. You keep calling the cops to say that I'm stealing your stuff - and I am! But secretly, you're also hiring people to carry your stuff to my house and leave it in my yard. But that has "no relevance on the legal facts of this case"? The fact that you're framing someone shouldn't affect their trial? That's just crazy.