Viacom Demand YouTube Data

[llwyd]

Courts have this week backed Viacom's demands for users data from Google in order to assess copyright breaches on the video website YouTube.



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[Rastalovich]

Imo, the whole YouTube thing is "meant" to be amateur-ish. Now what has sprouted from that tho are some comercial things, even whole shows taken from tv/video.

IF the YouTube limit the video size, I would prefer them to be free-and-easy amateur style.

I`d rather copyright things wouldn`t be an issue, but I do think that perhaps if some company does have some sense of violation that they could tagg the said video and it can be removed.

I thought that happened anyway for illicet stuff.

I`m not an avid YouTube fanatic, but I do respect what it is.

[PP Mguire]

Um wtf are they on about? Youtube has a 10 minute limit so how can you put whole TV shows on there?

Sorry but the court is wrong in this case and i hope Google fights it tooth and nail. Giving out log ins, viewing history, IP Addresses sheesh. Why dont i just hand my history and passwords over to Viacom as well as my pr0ns? For the heck of it i might as well just send some nudes too im sure somebody will get a kick out of it.

Complete breech of privacy and im damn glad i browse behind 3 proxys and use phony info on the net.

[equk]

I was talking about this last night and my dad said him and his wife actually watched a 60min tv show on it the other night lol he said it was in 6 parts, but they just kept clicking on the next part each time one ended.

I think there are a lot of things which pobably are copyrighted on youtube. The quality of the image isn't too good, but I guess some people must watch tv shows etc on it.

Also a great quote from my dad (he's over 60)

"they advertise on tv saying that if you miss an episode you can go to youtube and watch what you've missed"

haha

[equk]

I'm not sure what outcome viacom want, but asking for logs of IPs and account info etc is a bit ott.

youtube does seem (like a lot of things in the internet) to be a bit open to certain content as it's not really actively policed, maybe that's what viacom could get out of this.

[PP Mguire]

So they should hack down on Youtubes monitoring as to what people upload. Requesting logins, IPs, and monitoring what we watch is a direct invasion of privacy in my books. And its for no reason.