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The Judge"
Judge Louis L Stanton
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Please check this video out as well. I will be doing a follow up video soon for more clarification on this subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmyGrDIW5k
Viacom vs you. Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.
The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement.
Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a "set-back to privacy rights".
The viewing log, which will be handed to Viacom, contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details.
While the legal battle between the two firms is being contested in the US, it is thought the ruling will apply to YouTube users and their viewing habits everywhere.
Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has alleged that YouTube is guilty of massive copyright infringement.
The UK's Premier League association is also seeking class action status with Viacom on the issue, alleging YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, has been used to watch football highlights.
Legal action
When it initiated legal action in March 2007 Viacom said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes on the website, which had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
Following the launch of its billion-dollar lawsuit, YouTube introduced filtering tools in an effort to prevent copyright materials from appearing on the site.
The US court declined Viacom's request that Google be forced to hand over the source code of YouTube, saying it was a "trade secret" that should not be disclosed.
But it said privacy concerns expressed by Google about handing over the log were "speculative".
Google's senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said in a statement: "We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's over-reaching demand for viewing history.
"We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymise the logs before producing them under the court's order."
The ruling will see the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users given to Viacom, totalling more than 12 terabytes of data.
Viacom said it wanted the data to "compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing video with that of non-infringing videos."
YouTube and Google had "compelled" it to go to court, Viacom said, "by continuing to defend their illegal and irresponsible conduct and profiting from copyright infringement, when they could be implementing the safe and legal user generated content experience they promise".
It said it would not be asking for any "personally identifiable information" of any user.
"Any information that we or our outside advisors obtain will be used exclusively for the purpose of proving our case against You Tube and Google (and) will be handled subject to a court protective order and in a highly confidential manner."
'Erroneous ruling'
Leading privacy expert Simon Davies told BBC News that the privacy of millions of YouTube users was threatened.
He said: "The chickens have come home to roost for Google.
"Their arrogance and refusal to listen to friendly advice has resulted in the privacy of tens of millions being placed under threat."
Mr Davies said privacy campaigners had warned Google for years that IP addresses were personally identifiable information.
Google pledged last year to anonymise IP addresses for search information but it has said nothing about YouTube data.
Mr Davies said: "Governments and organisations are realising that companies like Google have a warehouse full of data. And while that data is stored it is under threat of being used and putting privacy in danger."
The EFF said: "The Court's erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube.
"We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users."
The body said the ruling was also potentially unlawful because the log data did contain personally identifiable data.
The court also ruled that Google disclose to Viacom the details of all videos that have been removed from the site for any reason. タグ:vsyoucopyrightinfringementlawsuit 投稿日: July 6, 2008, 11:56 am 閲覧数: 739815 投票: 4.90(５点満点) 19758 人の平均
viacom and judge louis l. stanton rob youtube user privacy
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http://zennie2005.blogspot.com/2008/07/viacom-and-judge-louis-l-stanton-rob.html - On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Louis L. Stanton forced YouTube to give Viacom, which owns shows like "The Daily Show", records that show what videos you and I have been watching. Here, I explains that the implications are dangerous and could help, for example, the Chinese Government find and kill Tibetan protesters. Finally, I give the contact information for Judge Stanton and his Law Clerk, Samson Enzer. タグ:youtubechinatibetfreeolympics 投稿日: July 5, 2008, 12:53 pm 閲覧数: 3806 投票: 4.90(５点満点) 173 人の平均
viacom logo history
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A history of the so-called scary Viacom logo. タグ:logohistorydoomsteel 投稿日: December 29, 2006, 4:10 am 閲覧数: 62008 投票: 4.10(５点満点) 138 人の平均
history of viacom logos (1971-2005)
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This is a compilation of Viacom logos from 1971 to 2005. I only included logos that were seen on American television, so the PAL "V of Doom" is not included. I also didn't include the extended "V of Steel," but I still used the video to make the normal "V of Steel" in good quality.
NOTE: I am quite aware that this logo history is outdated since several more Viacom logos have been discovered since I made this. Also, there are several logos already on here that have been uploaded in better quality. タグ:closinglogologos 投稿日: October 28, 2006, 6:51 pm 閲覧数: 76643 投票: 4.10(５点満点) 168 人の平均
were you caught in viacom takedown?
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If your video was taken down after complaints from Viacom, but contained either no viacom content at all, or fair use extracts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation would like to hear from you. タグ:efftakedowndmcayoutube 投稿日: February 9, 2007, 9:43 am 閲覧数: 42401 投票: 5.00(５点満点) 449 人の平均
