Mark Cuban, the multi-millionaire who sold broadcast.com for hundreds of millions of dollars to Yahoo in the go-go days of the Internet, is taking on web media behemoth, Google, for being less than truthful in regards to its ongoing battle with copyright owners such as Viacom. Viacom, who refuses to make a deal with YouTube/Google over its videos on the popular video service, earns Cuban’s sympathies:

“Google can filter everything and anything, but ‘chooses not to’ unless you do a deal with them.”

According to Google-pundit blog, “Google Blogoscoped,” the videos are already being taken down but that hasn’t prevented the wider blogosphere from discovering Google’s bottom-line approach to copyright infringement: we aren’t going to do anything about your work (your copyright) unless you pay us.

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