"Ah Viacom," Schmidt was quoted as saying in a CNet article about the speech. "You're either doing business with them or being sued by them...we chose the former, but ended up the latter." Viacom, which has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the site for alleged copyright infringements, has been particularly vocal in claiming that YouTube has not done all it can to stop illegal posting. The filtering system, which was supposed to be deployed last year, has been delayed several times, and some media companies have accused Google for slowing this process in order to capitalize for longer on the traffic that the copyrighted
clips generate.