YouTube Users at Risk?

[Tuco]

Here's the latest in the Viacom vs. Google/YouTube suit:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802490

[apileocole]

That's way over the line and the potential consequences of that ruling for the future is grave.

Google has to turn over millions of videos it has removed from the video-sharing site, user login IDs, records showing when users watched videos, their IP addresses, and numbers that identify the videos. The order applies not only to videos watched on YouTube but also to videos embedded on third-party Web sites.

[...] The search engine company also argued that Viacom's request for the information threatened user privacy because it would disclose viewing and video uploading patterns and link them with login IDs and IP addresses. Stanton characterized those concerns as "speculative" and said Google failed to provide legal justification for that argument.

I suspect that Judge didn't realize the full scope of what he just did.

[W.B.]

Perhaps in advance Viacom shopped their case to a judge who would more likely rule in their favor - can one say "rigging"?

[Jay F]

So what they're P&Ming about is people watching clips from CBS TV shows?

[JBStephens]

A move like this was to be expected from a company that did for television what Clear Channel did for radio...

[Grant]

That's way over the line and the potential consequences of that ruling for the future is grave.



I suspect that Judge didn't realize the full scope of what he just did.

The Tribulation is coming...