Google stole sharing idea for Hangouts and YouTube, lawsuit claims

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A New York start-up claims that a video sharing feature in YouTube and Google+  is based on concepts that it showed to Google (s goog) when the two companies met to discuss collaboration strategies in 2011.

In a lawsuit filed in San Jose, CamUp is accusing the search giant of copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation over a "watch with your friends" button for videos.

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I'm really getting tired of these stupid infringement cases. There's nothing 'rocket science' about Google hangouts...