we found there s a cavalcade of e-mails in which youtube and google said we know this is copyright infringement and we re going to keep doing it because it draws those eyeballs. google is only five years old. it s revolutionized how we ve watched only five years old? hard to believe and one of the most popular early videos was a saturday night live video, lazy sunday. that kind of stuff got media companies like nbc, like viacom aware that these were potentially very valuable properties and they didn t want them floating and on the internet for free. okay. so bottom line, who do you think will win this case? i think it s unclear so far but i ll tell you, viacom has a fairly strong suit in that they can floouf google knew about this stuff and the one law that google might rely on for relief may or may not apply. in a way, alex, this is a historical lute laut in that companies like google recognize they had to start doing deals with the nbcs and viacoms of the
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of hundreds of pages of sealed documents. what did we learn about the we situation? nbc news legal analyst lisa green is joining us to explain. good morning. good morning, alex. the basics. why is viacom suing youtube? owner of comedy central and jon stewart and steven coe bare are very popular on the web. basically viacom said we re fed up with youtube taking our video and putting it on the web where people can watch it for free without getting a piece of the action. they brought this three years ago and have asked for a billion dollars in compensation. youtube very deep pocketed, why, google bought it several years ago. this is also something that could potentially affect how all of us watch television on the web. so all these legal documents that have been sealed, unsealed now, what did we find out?