Viacom lashed out  today and filed a 1 billion dollar lawsuit against Google for copyright infringement at GooTube (google.com and youtube.com) for distributing over 160,000 Viacom properties (MTV, Comedy Central).  This is not good. On paper you can understand why Viacom has a reason for being upset about GooTube displaying their videos and profiting from them.  They invested a lot of time and money putting their productions together and to have someone benefit from them without permission is ...