Viacom demands that YouTube remove all its videos: reports
According to the article Viacom wants over 100,000 clips removed. Viacom content comes from many sources including:
+ MTV
+ Comedy Central (The Daily Show, The Colbert Report)
+ BET
+ iFilm
+ Atom
+ Paramount Pictures
Many Others

Source: MarketWatch

See Also: Wall Street Journal Article (Subscribers Only)
From the article:

“We can’t let this keep happening,” a Viacom spokesman said.

YouTube has signed licensing deals with CBS and NBC, but has been butting heads with some media outlets even as it tries to woo the large companies. Last week News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox sent a subpoena to YouTube demanding it unveil the identity of a user who uploaded pirated copies of recent episodes of “24″ and “The Simpsons.”

Viacom is one of several media companies (others include Fox, CBS Corp. and General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal) that has also been discussing building their own Web site to compete with YouTube. (See article)

UPDATE: YouTube Will Comply (via Marketwatch.com)

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