YouTube users are campaigning against Viacom through a series of videos. You can find many of them on this blog.
Over the long Fourth of July weekend and afterward, YouTube users took the opportunity to consistently refresh YouTube’s growing cache of anti-Viacom content, with materials that include new videos exhorting users to band together in a boycott covering Viacom’s Web site, Paramount films (including the new Indiana Jones film that premiered in May), MTV cable networks, and other Viacom-owned properties.
“Viacom has not asked for and will not be obtaining any personally identifiable information of any YouTube user,” reads a posting that has meanwhile popped up on Viacom’s site.
“The personally identifiable information that YouTube collects from its users will be stripped from the data before it is transferred to Viacom,” according to the post, which seems to try to transfer user disgruntlement from Viacom over to YouTube. “Viacom will be using the data exclusively for the purpose of proving our case against YouTube and Google.”
Yet in a quick search of YouTube on Tuesday evening, BetaNews counted a total of 4,260 videos indexed under the search term “Viacom,” with 175 of those under “Viacom sucks.”
I wonder how many people will not watch Viacom movies because of this. Sadly, I don’t think it will be that many.