Read Documents from the Youtube/Viacom Copyright Litigation

Courtesy of Matt Elliott:

To refresh your memory about this case: The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, contends that nearly 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's entertainment programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

Recently unsealed documents from the case may be found here:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/18/read-the-just-unsealed-documents-from-the-youtubeviacom-case-here/

Courtesy of Emmie Q:

Here is an article that summarizes the contents of the documents from the case: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=59398

I don't want to spoil the juicy details but it appears that both Youtube and Viacom acted to antagonize the other side, which probably culminated into this lawsuit.