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ValleyWag, the Silicon Valley Blog,

reports that despite Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against YouTube,

Viacom is using the video service to do some infringing itself. Last month, Viacom had fetched that YouTube was, quote, building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed

content. And yet, blogs on sites for some of Viacom shows are using YouTube to violate the copyright

of non-Viacom TV shows like Oprah, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live.

It gets even better.

You've heard of money laundering.

Well, get ready for content laundering.

ValleyWag also reported that bloggers at Comedy Central, one of several cable networks owned by Viacom,

exploit a service called Scene Maker,

which lets users tag and cut online video. Once copied over, the stolen video looks like it's hosted

at SceneMaker rather than YouTube, and the YouTube logo is stripped off. You know what we say

here at the business? People who live in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black.

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