24 Reviews
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- aowreturns reviewed 7 months agointernet
- From the page: "July 02, 2008"
 yusdi rated 12 months agocyberculture - "The judge also turned Google's own defense of its data retention policies -- that IP addresses of computers aren't personally revealing in and of themselves, against it to justify the log dump."
Uhh... Why did you want the IP addresses again, Viacom?
UPDATE: Google has asked Viacom to allow them to anonymize users' data:
"... We are asking Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."
UPDATE: They got the permission:
"Google claims it had now agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys with a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube usernames and IP addresses that could be used to identify individual video watchers."
- hekkawhat rated 12 months agointernet
- Fuck you Viacom! Now stay off the internet!
- djTeka rated 12 months agointernet
- So we are in the wrong for wanting to see shows that we don't have the time to wait to see on TV, before Viacom takes down the video?
Edit:
Viacom, if I want to watch old Nickelodeon
(or whatever tickles your fancy [that Viacom happens to own])
shows, but you don't provide them, what do I do?
Wait until you care?
No.
- M-104 reviewed 12 months agointernet, privacy
- Simply creepy. I'm probably not alone in mistrusting our large telecom corporations - especially since this wonderful business of unwarranted wiretapping - but for Viacom to demand users' IP addresses (and read toward the article's end for their really unreasonable demands) is a legal overreaction at best. At worst, this could be something a little darker than a copyright dispute.
- bristol3 rated 13 months agointernet
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From the page: Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is more popular than user-created videos, which could be used to increase Google's liability if it is found guilty of contributory infringement.
Viacom filed suit against Google in March 2007, seeking more than $1 billion in damages for allowing users to upload clips of Viacom's copyright material. Google argues that the law provides a safe harbor for online services so long as they comply with copyright takedown requests.
Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as speculative and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four tera-byte hard drives.
- Awils1 rated 13 months agointernet
- Frightening news: Google has been ordered to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, along with a data dump of user names and IP addresses that links a user with each viewing.
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