Earlier this week, in a conversation with a friend, I described YouTube as “potentially the biggest single copyright infringer in history.”  It seems that Viacom may share my sentiment.

Now, just because I think that YouTube owes much of its existence to copyright infringement, it doesn’t mean that I agree with the laws that make it so.  In fact, I think they’re an awful set of laws, from a public interest perspective.  But who’s going to argue for the public interest?   Pretty much no one with any effectiveness.  So I’d very much love to see a clash of the well-funded titans over this.

Here’s hoping.