Paramount has agreed to give YouTube and Google Play access to 500 movies for rental, the companies announced today.
What’s that you say? Haven’t their parent companies fought one of the Web’s nastiest copyright battles for the last five years? Viacom sued Google and YouTube in 2007
alleging that they encouraged users to pirate Viacom’s TV shows and
films. YouTube won the first round in federal district court but Viacom
has appealed.
Viacom has actually done business with Google for years, and some of the company’s content has been available on
Android and YouTube for a while
