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Kimye sues YouTube co-founder for proposal leak

This is one video they really, really didn’t want getting out there.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are suing the guy who allegedly leaked the tape of the couple’s proposal to his video-sharing site – even though West got down on one knee in the open air of AT&T Park in San Francisco, where MLB’s San Francisco Giants play baseball.
According to TMZ, the couple’s lawyer Eric George rips the alleged leaker, who happens to be Chad Hurley, the man who co-founded YouTube and sold it to Google for $1.65 billion. MixBit, the site the video appeared on, is Hurley’s new venture and the lawsuit says Hurley was using the private moment to prop up his new business after a pair of post-YouTube flops.
The suit claims that Hurley wasn’t invited to the stadium, but got in anyway – only after signing a confidentiality agreement. They even got him to take a picture while holding up the document.
“Hurley, eager for opportunities to promote his new foundering business enterprise (MixBit), finagled entry into an exclusive event to which he had not been invited, and which involved two people (Kardashian and West) whom Hurley had never before met,” the suit reads.

In addition, the court documents also accuse the YouTube co-founder, of having the gumption to attempt to make the event about himself.
“Hurley proceeded to try to turn the event into one starring himself, broadcasting the images he knew were the exclusive property rights of someone else.”

Kardashian says Hurley posted the proposal on MixBit, tweeted it out to nearly one million followers and then released a press release to brag about it.
Kardashian is suing for unspecified damages. She says the video was supposed to be given to M C Cable Television, a subsidiary of Bunim/Murray and E!, the network that produces and airs “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

Kimye’s suit against Youtube co-founder