What about YouTube deleting pro-life videos at the behest of abortionists?
This is so f**king ridiculous.
Youtube is the ONLY source of a lot of the stuff that people watch!
I love when companies scream “copyright infringement” on something that YOU CAN NO LONGER BUY! Like old sitcoms and stuff.
Yep. Expect that 3 AM knock in the not-distant-enough future.
By users, do they mean gmail user ID, or actually any anonymous user by IP address? If so, this information could be also be used by other inquirers to track those who have viewed political videos as well, or left comments at sites, viewed “rumors” in the news, etc. etc...
They’re already doing this for China, evidently.
got tinfoil?
Our Founders would not recognize America as is exists today. The Bill of Rights is invalidated if a “US Court” says so.
Big Brother is watching us.
First they came for the....
You Tube is so 2007, it is old hat.
This was a stupid decision. I wonder if the judge in that case will now try to get my IP and address from this post...
This judge must be taken down, tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail ~ and as quickly as possible as that can be arranged.
I think I will file an appeal ~
Another violation of the 4th Amendment (RIP).
The Jihad on Drugs takes another scalp.
And yet, according to the Wall Street Journal today:
“Google Won’t Be Forced
To Turn Over Source Code
July 3, 2008; Page B6
“A federal judge has denied a request to force Google Inc. and Google’s YouTube unit to turn over the computer code at the heart of their search functions in a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit by Viacom Inc. In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton in Manhattan granted Google’s request for a protective order barring the disclosure of the source code, which controls the YouTube.com search function and Google.com’s Internet search tool. Google contends the source code is a trade secret and can’t be disclosed without risking the loss of business.”
They are going after the Johns not just the hookers? Also Google/You Tube are the pimps.
If someone is posting Lord of the Rings videos on You Tube I think they/Google/You Tube should be held accountable.
That's fine. It will just keep some artists from ever being heard by anyone but themselves and their manager.
There is simply no limit to how dumb the music industry can be. They want to kill all of that free advertising for their product. They want to punish their best customers. They are just stupid with a capital S.
But Rick Astley is probably owed a lot of royalties by now!
OK, it’s bad that Viacom gets the log. But isn’t it JUST AS BAD that Google HAS the log, which means Google already was tracking all of your viewing habits?
Google’s Legal and PR teams are going to learn the hard way just like MSFT did.
Google also keeps such tabs on google searches. Why?
The only way to not be forced to hand over such information is not to collect just notes on users’ habits to begin with.
The same could be said of the bookstore that had records of what books were sold to what customers.
It came into play a decade ago when Starr requested the records of what books Monica Lewinsky had purchased, to help confirm a detail from one of the phone calls, if I recall.
Privacy rights advocates vented against Starr. I don’t recall any privacy rights advocates taking the bookstore to task for doing the same thing they accused Big Brother of doing.
Their staff has ENCOURAGED posting of MTV programming content to YouTube without individual approval. They wanted "water cooler" moments spread through viral email networks (you get it, laugh, and send it to a friend).
(MTV) Video Awards Seek Jolt From Crowd and Internet (hoping for anarchy and chaos?) (NY Times Published: August 24, 2006 By BEN SISARIO)
“He should be encouraged at all points to storm the stage and to create a television moment that people will talk about at the water cooler the next day,” said Hamish Hamilton, one of the producers. “Or even better, that people will download and put on YouTube the next day.”
damn, it’d be a shame if all those records were lost.
I bet a thinking jury would convict if they were accidently destroyed. < \sarcasm>