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Re:YouTube kills billions of video views faked by Music Indu... by mattangriffel on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:08AM (#4977939)
There's actually probably a legitimate case here for a class action lawsuit suing Google on behalf of its advertisers.

Assuming a $5 CPM, this article means Google is admitting to making at least $10 million from advertising to fake impressions.

Re:YouTube kills billions of video views faked by Music Indu... by jre on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:30AM (#4978016)
I'm not sure about that. It seems that the flaw used (described in other comments here) just required to do a GET request on the video stream, not stream it fully. So whether or not fake impressions took place depends on how and when ad impressions are counted. I would think you need to download at least part of the ad for it to count as an impression.
Re:YouTube kills billions of video views faked by Music Indu... by DominikR on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:36AM (#4978034)
I doubt that Google can be (successfully) sued because some other entity violated the ToS. You'd probably have to show that Google acted maliciously.