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Published: Jul 03, 2008 - 09:55 am
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News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Published: Jul 03, 2008 - 09:55 am
Story Found By: DavidWallace 1421 Days ago
Category: SEM
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So now the courts get to decide site by site what can be private. It’s a slippery slope.
millions of people are sharing these links, informing new people about these shows and movies and music, and they want to stop it. what a bunch of fools. Once they’re done getting everything removed from youtube, they’ll go and PAY Itunes to do what youtube did for free, only Itunes will deliver less traffic. brilliant!
I especially like Danny’s postscript addition about his phone call to the judges office. "That’s T-E-C-H-M-E-M-E-DOT-COM, I spelled out." LOL
I’m not a Google basher, but judging from the excerpts of the transcript, it seems as though they are being very, very evil here. It appears they do not want to go on the record saying that IP addresses and user names could identify people, because that could limit their use of that information for their own profit in the future. So instead of protecting their users’ privacy, they are completely selling them out so that they can monetize them better in the future. Wow. This definitely makes me reconsider my relationship with Google’s services.
Viacom risk making themselves very unpopular with people.
This is not a case pursuing individuals, but it is a watershed case.If it suceeds, it’s only a matter of time b4 Utube goes down.The weight of liturgy will drown it.When uploading photo’s, (to iStock), you have to have signed model release forms for every individual in a photo.Strictly inforcing current IP legislation, YouTube would be exactly the same.Think about it..
Postscript 3 is kind of interesting but doesn’t change anything from your original story if I read it right. Viacom is saying they don’t want personally identifiable indormation. Google is saying IP address and user name are not personally identifiable. So they are still going to get this info. And being restricted from using information for a certain purpose doesn’t mean it won’t happen. "Confidential" information is leaked constantly. Just ask Valerie Plame or Barry Bonds. The only way to stop people from using it is to stop access. This only strengthens my argument that Google is selling out its users’ privacy by saying this info cannot identify them. If they had said it could, Viacom would probably not get this data.