HotNSexyMILF
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So every single youtube video you have ever watched- logged with the time you started the video, how many times you have viewed it. Add to this your IP address. All gifted to a mega-corporation. The judge scoffing at the idea that this is a breach of privacy... I'm so fucking sick of all this doublespeak.
Slavery does NOT equal freedom.
Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube
07.03.08
by Chloe Albanesius
Should Viacom be privy to the fact that you've watched "Cat Playing Piano" 57 times on YouTube since March?
Yes, according to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York. Judge Louis Stanton on Wednesday ruled that Google must provide Viacom with YouTube user histories in Viacom's ongoing $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the video Web site.
Google must hand over all the information contained in its logging database, including the login ID of the users who have watched videos, the time they started to watch the video, users' IP address, and the video identifier.
Viacom claims that it must have access to the entire database in order to see whether users are watching infringing videos more than they are watching non-infringing content. If they are watching more videos with copyrighted data that might prove that Google had an incentive to keep them live on YouTube and did not actively work to remove them, according to Viacom.
Google balked at the request. Turning over the data about 12 terabytes would be time consuming, expensive, and a violation of user privacy, the company argued.
The court dismissed the notion that turning over the information was too burdensome since "all of its contents can be copied onto a few 'over-the-shelf' four-terabyte hard drives," Judge Stanton wrote.
The judge was also skeptical that the data contained in YouTube's logging database would allow Viacom access to personally identifiable user information.
Google's own musings on the subject of IP address privacy were actually used against them, with Judge Stanton pointing to a Google Public Policy blog post from February that said "IP addresses recorded by every Web site on the planet without additional information should not be considered personal data, because these Web sites usually cannot identify the human beings behind these number strings."
The court "erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users," Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued in a blog post.
The VPPA was passed in 1988 after the video rental history of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork was published in a newspaper during his nomination process. Congress found that the videos one chooses to watch is deeply personal and should not be made public without permission.
Arguing that the logging database does not contain personally identfiable information is insufficient, Opsahl said.
"If any single one of the YouTube users in the Logging database picked a login ID that does identify that user (i.e. if my YouTube login was kurtopsahl), then the logging database' information about viewing habits is protected by the VPPA, even if others pick anonymous pseudonyms," Opsahl said. Next: What Viacom Doesn't Get
Slavery does NOT equal freedom.
Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube
07.03.08
by Chloe Albanesius
Should Viacom be privy to the fact that you've watched "Cat Playing Piano" 57 times on YouTube since March?
Yes, according to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York. Judge Louis Stanton on Wednesday ruled that Google must provide Viacom with YouTube user histories in Viacom's ongoing $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the video Web site.
Google must hand over all the information contained in its logging database, including the login ID of the users who have watched videos, the time they started to watch the video, users' IP address, and the video identifier.
Viacom claims that it must have access to the entire database in order to see whether users are watching infringing videos more than they are watching non-infringing content. If they are watching more videos with copyrighted data that might prove that Google had an incentive to keep them live on YouTube and did not actively work to remove them, according to Viacom.
Google balked at the request. Turning over the data about 12 terabytes would be time consuming, expensive, and a violation of user privacy, the company argued.
The court dismissed the notion that turning over the information was too burdensome since "all of its contents can be copied onto a few 'over-the-shelf' four-terabyte hard drives," Judge Stanton wrote.
The judge was also skeptical that the data contained in YouTube's logging database would allow Viacom access to personally identifiable user information.
Google's own musings on the subject of IP address privacy were actually used against them, with Judge Stanton pointing to a Google Public Policy blog post from February that said "IP addresses recorded by every Web site on the planet without additional information should not be considered personal data, because these Web sites usually cannot identify the human beings behind these number strings."
The court "erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users," Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued in a blog post.
The VPPA was passed in 1988 after the video rental history of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork was published in a newspaper during his nomination process. Congress found that the videos one chooses to watch is deeply personal and should not be made public without permission.
Arguing that the logging database does not contain personally identfiable information is insufficient, Opsahl said.
"If any single one of the YouTube users in the Logging database picked a login ID that does identify that user (i.e. if my YouTube login was kurtopsahl), then the logging database' information about viewing habits is protected by the VPPA, even if others pick anonymous pseudonyms," Opsahl said. Next: What Viacom Doesn't Get
