Editing Paramount Network (section)

== Website ==
On October 15, 2005, Viacom acquired [[iFilm]], which was initially launched in 1997. After acquiring the website for $49 million, it was eventually rebranded to Spike.com and provided hosting of [[User-generated content|user-uploaded videos]] in a short-lived attempt to compete with [[YouTube]] (which Viacom had [[Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.|sued]] to remove user-generated uploads of its programming from), a strategy eventually abandoned to refocus Spike.com as a general network site. The iFilm.com domain redirected to the [[Screen Junkies]] website for a period of time.

During the era where they hosted user generated content, Spike.com's managers only approved videos pre-screened to meet their standards.<ref>Bangeman, Eric. [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/03/infringing-videos-on-ifilm-could-cause-problems-for-viacom.ars "Infringing videos on iFilm could cause problems for Viacom"] [[Ars Technica]]. March 19, 2007</ref> On January 18, 2018, Spike.com was sunsetted, and viewers were redirected to the new Paramount Network site and domain.