Media giant Viacom has filed a copyright infringement law suit against the popular online video file-sharing site, YouTube and its parent owner, Google. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court of New York on Tuesday.

 Viacom claims YouTube has carried more than 100,000 unauthorized clips on its site. Last month, Viacom demanded that YouTube remove the video clips that had been uploaded by its users. Viacom is seeking more than one billion dollars in damages asserting that YouTube has shown “brazen disregard for intellectual property laws.”

Meanwhile, Google said in a statement that it respects the copyrights at issue and that it “will not let this suit become a distraction to the continuing growth and strong performance of YouTube.”

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