http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03...t-yourself.html

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.

 

Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.

 

It's hard to reach such epic levels of fail.

lol. That's funny as s***.

I dated a chick like that once...

some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.

 

That is the definition of Epic Fail.

This is just awesome on so many levels.

Ubisoft had similar fail with their latest DRM scheme. First, they instituted a new system that required a constant internet connection to play, even if it was a single-player game:

 

http://support.uk.ubi.com/online-services-platform/

 

Of course, this was hacked before the game was even officially released. No shock there. What happened then? Ubisoft's servers went down, so all of the legitimate customers couldn't play their games while the those with pirated copies could. Brilliant idea.

 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...Servers-Go-Down

 

And the icing on the cake is that Ubisoft has used pirate hacks in the past to "patch" their own crappy DRM software.

 

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080718/1117121722.shtml