Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

[punkbass2000]

Technology doesn't spy on people, people spy on people.

 

[illram]

We need more judges better educated on the ins and outs of internet technology and software in general. My guess is the judge was not totally positive about what he/she was ordering and they often are only as educated as the litigants want them to be.

Something like this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E2D9113AF937A15757C0A96F958260

But for technology. Alot of bad decisions like this (well I guess now it is a better decision) could be avoided.

 

[GoodGame]

Still having uniquely identifiable info is a good way for building the legal case to get accurate numbers for estimating damages, and technically they're all witnesses to the crime anyways. I bet this is going to make it harder to get mentos-coke explosions up on youtube as they'll have to screen and get emailed releases for every single upload, methinks.


What happens on your homepage stays on your homepage.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/judge-orders-yo.html



Geez, privacy and the courts just don't get along lately.

 

[GoodGame]

It might be excessive, but then what if youtube argues that the same person viewed it multiple times, when really it was multiple people?

I read this. It's absolute BS. There's no real reason for them to have the IP address of every user, their name, and their viewing history. If they wanted to know the extent of the Copyright Infringement, they can check the amount of views right under the video.

Viacom simply wants to harass Google.

 

[LucyDuke]

It might be excessive, but then what if youtube argues that the same person viewed it multiple times, when really it was multiple people?

Then Viacom says "you can't prove that" and YouTube says "sure I can, watch this video" and rickrolls everyone.

 

[Mise]

Guess some of you guys missed the reason why I bumped this thread

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=7035487&postcount=60

 

[civman21]

if it's all just speculative they should'nt need IP adresses, seems like a line to me and an excuse to invade peoples privacy

 

[punkbass2000]

Then Viacom says "you can't prove that" and YouTube says "sure I can, watch this video" and rickrolls everyone.