A new twist in the google case
“Last week we brought you the news that google must provide records of everyone’s youtube video-viewing habits to Viacom, per a legal ruling. As you’d probably expect, privacy advocates on the internet are up-in-arms. As you might not suspect, whether google will appeal the ruling isn’t certain.
“We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history,” Catherine Lacavera, Google’s senior litigation counsel, told The Boston Globe. “We will ask Viacom to respect users’ privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court’s order.”
She said “before” producing the records. Not “if we produce the records.” Others on the internet are reporting that google has “promised” to appeal, as of yet, though, nothing has been filed.
Viacom says it will not use the records to invade any one’s privacy. They say they need the records to prove that copyright infringing material on youtube is more frequently viewed than non-infringing material.
We think google should provide only printed copies of their massive databases to Viacom. It wouldn’t do any good, but it would be pretty funny to see the fleets of 18-wheelers hauling a bazillion sheets of paper that prove conclusively that some people like to watch The Family Guy on youtube. -Source : www.g4tv.com/thefeed“
This comferts me on one hand, but on the other hand we just opened a door for them, and we just keep opening it and keep opening it for anti piracy groups, Alot of bad could happen from this one court case thats all im saying. But heres my other problem with it they say they only want this info to “prove that copyright infringing material on youtube is more frequently viewed than non-infringing material” if thats so why dont they go by the views log instead of requesting logs on individual ips and users? i dont understand this, the problem i have with this is now they have the power to go after that guy that makes a sponge bob soulja boy amv, or somone who uploads a epsiode of drake in josh or any viacom material. This is gonna probley end up turing into a orgnaziton like the mpaa.
