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RE: Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com
by Lost at 2:14 pm EDT, Jul 3, 2008

Decius wrote:

Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is more popular than user-created videos, which could be used to increase Google's liability if it is found guilty of contributory infringement.

Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as "speculative" and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four tera-byte hard drives.

The judge also turned Google's own defense of its data retention policies -- that IP addresses of computers aren't personally revealing in and of themselves, against it to justify the log dump.

Who didn't see this coming? Google shouldn't be keeping this data period, because this will continue to happen. Fuck google.

RE: Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com


 
 
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