Another 'Ends with a Whimper'

Google (YouTube) and Viacom settled their long-running copyright infringement case this week. As usual terms were not disclosed but the rumor is nobody paid anybody except the lawyers who got hefty retainers as this case made it all the way up to the Second Circuit. I think Peter Kafka has it right in the linked article where he says, "the core issues have been settled by both the courts and the market." Unfortunately, this leaves in place YouTube's odious and highly error-prone ContentID system, about which we will no doubt hear more soon.