Viacom wants 100,000 videos cut from YouTube

“Viacom Inc. said Friday it has demanded that YouTube Inc. remove more than 100,000 videos from its site. New York-based Viacom has started a competing service, and said the videos on San Bruno-based YouTube are mostly clips that represent more than 1.2 billion video streams and come from Viacom-owned properties including MTV Networks and BET. In a press release, Viacom sad that ‘After months of ongoing discussions with YouTube and Google, it has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users.’ The video-sharing service is owned by Mountain View-based Google Inc.”