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		wolco on March 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright s... They didn't go that route with Oracle/java. Whoever is in charge of this situation dropped the ball out of fear. It cost Google plenty because all videos should have ads unless you are on a paid account.

nemothekid on March 5, 2020 [–]

Google didn’t lose anything by settling with Viacom. The Oracle lawsuit put the whole Android ecosystem at risk. The trade offs weren’t similar at all

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