July 4th, 2008, 11:01
There's some pretty creepy shit coming out of America these days.
From: washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/03/ST2008070304015.html
YouTube Ordered To Release User Data
Viacom Had Sought Access to Database In Copyright Battle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 4, 2008; Page D01
A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world's third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers.
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Further the requirement IS for username/IP data, which could be matched to ISP records anywhere ...
The database contains the unique login ID of the viewer, the time he began watching, the Internet Protocol, or IP, address of the user's computer and the identification of the video. That database is the only existing record of how often each video has been viewed during various time periods, the opinion said. Its data can recreate the number of views of a video for any particular day.
In ordering the data release, Stanton said that YouTube's privacy concerns were "speculative,"
If Viacom corporation can get Google IP records then why not from ISP records from any ISP including those from countries outside Europe that don't even have the privacy laws the west has?
I see nothing definitely specifying the uses of these data.
This is pretty bad news. It is simple matters with supercomputers these day to search, compile information from numerous sources and easily identify YOU as gay from all your previous viewing habits. The lesson may soon be: DON'T USE THE INTERNET.
It's like so much other news these days. Sensational, probably inaccurate.
It's contrary to principle. If true it indicates the degradation of basic civil principle in the US court system. Google is an ISP service and not specifically responsible for the actions of it's users so then WHY is Viacom allowed to demand these data as data to prove they are violating copyright laws? And IS user/to/user sharing of already broadcast materials and products inferior to properly/published material copyright infringement when the individual users are not gaining any notoriety, cash or other remuneration? There are certainly a LOT of unanswered/undecided questions and a court action like this is quite unwarranted. And there seem to be absolutely no restrictions on what all these data can be used by Viacom for.
In fact it is so awful a decision that it must be mis-reported news AGAIN.
The article mentions "laws designed to protect privacy". I really don't know what these laws are if they exist.
Viacom should be made to BUY these data from Google if they think it will be useful and based on what Google will provide.
Interesting: July 4th.
From: washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/03/ST2008070304015.html
YouTube Ordered To Release User Data
Viacom Had Sought Access to Database In Copyright Battle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 4, 2008; Page D01
A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world's third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers.
...
Further the requirement IS for username/IP data, which could be matched to ISP records anywhere ...
The database contains the unique login ID of the viewer, the time he began watching, the Internet Protocol, or IP, address of the user's computer and the identification of the video. That database is the only existing record of how often each video has been viewed during various time periods, the opinion said. Its data can recreate the number of views of a video for any particular day.
In ordering the data release, Stanton said that YouTube's privacy concerns were "speculative,"
If Viacom corporation can get Google IP records then why not from ISP records from any ISP including those from countries outside Europe that don't even have the privacy laws the west has?
I see nothing definitely specifying the uses of these data.
This is pretty bad news. It is simple matters with supercomputers these day to search, compile information from numerous sources and easily identify YOU as gay from all your previous viewing habits. The lesson may soon be: DON'T USE THE INTERNET.
It's like so much other news these days. Sensational, probably inaccurate.
It's contrary to principle. If true it indicates the degradation of basic civil principle in the US court system. Google is an ISP service and not specifically responsible for the actions of it's users so then WHY is Viacom allowed to demand these data as data to prove they are violating copyright laws? And IS user/to/user sharing of already broadcast materials and products inferior to properly/published material copyright infringement when the individual users are not gaining any notoriety, cash or other remuneration? There are certainly a LOT of unanswered/undecided questions and a court action like this is quite unwarranted. And there seem to be absolutely no restrictions on what all these data can be used by Viacom for.
In fact it is so awful a decision that it must be mis-reported news AGAIN.
The article mentions "laws designed to protect privacy". I really don't know what these laws are if they exist.
Viacom should be made to BUY these data from Google if they think it will be useful and based on what Google will provide.
Interesting: July 4th.