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.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has already reacted, calling the order a violation of the Video Privacy Protection act that “threatens to expose deeply private information.”
July 3, 2008...11:59 am
And now, they’re coming for you
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July 3, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Um, no. No, No. No!!! Evil.
July 3, 2008 at 12:16 pm
holy shit. Double plus crap that is.
July 3, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Well, good luck finding me. My IP is part of the dynamic Verizon pool and even I don’t know where I’m blogging from. For real.
I remember a few years ago when Google did something similar for the Chinese government. The Chinese wanted something blocked and Google obliged and the blogosphere went apeshit. There was a boycott and people were threatening Google and…Well, we see how well that went.
Crap. I had a point and now I’ve forgotten it. I hate when that happens.
July 3, 2008 at 6:22 pm
This is pretty ridiculous. If someone violates copyright law by putting copyrighted stuff on YouTube, it seems that the perpetrator should be responsible, not YouTube. Following the judge’s logic, the PA Department of Transportation would be responsible for any illegal aliens who were smuggled on it’s highways.
However, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s response is pretty silly. If you put it on YouTube, and you think it is “deeply private information,” you are an idiot.
July 3, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Read about this earlier today, couldn’t believe my eyes. Ridiculous.
July 4, 2008 at 7:55 pm
They can come and get me now. I’ve watched all of Project Runway (four seasons), Kitchen Nightmares, Kitchen Nightmares USA, Hell’s Kitchen all four seasons, Hell’s Kitchen UK, The F-Word (also Gordon Ramsay), all of QI, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Peep Show (five seasons), 8 out of 10 Cats, Still Game, Top Chef Chicago and more.
Come and get me, Viacom!
July 5, 2008 at 11:38 am
So it’s illegal not only to upload copyrighted videos, but to SEE them? Yeesh.
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