A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.
San Francisco - A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.
Lawyers for Google, which owns YouTube, said the order is a threat to users' privacy.
In case you’ve been in a pre-holiday daze this week, the blogosphere has been atwitter (not to mention a-twittering) with the news that the Hon. Louis L. Stanton, the Federal district judge presiding over Viacom’s massive copyright infringement suit against YouTube has ordered Google, which owns YouTube, to turn over its viewership records (12 terabytes).
NEW YORK (AP) - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
Appropriately enough, YouTube chose Independence Day to release a response to the court order it received yesterday to hand over user information to Viacom as part the media giant’s ongoing $1 billion lawsuit against the video sharing service.
A federal judge in New York, presiding over Viacom's $1 billion copyright suit against Google, has ordered Google to give Viacom a three terabyte database showing every clip users have watched on Google-owned YouTube, the Internet's largest video site.
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If you're anything like me - nothing to be proud of, I know - you probably spend your idle moments surfing the crucible of modern life that is YouTube. In just a few short years it's gone from being a niche video website to the basic staple of online entertainment.
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Google was yesterday ordered to hand over the personal details of anyone who has ever watched a YouTube video.
Stewart Meagher the Inquirer, Friday 4 July 2008. 08:17:00 They want details of every clip you've ever watched THE WORLD'S MOST VISITED website is being forced to hand over the details of every clip watched by every use.
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In a ruling that could have serious privacy implications, a federal judge has ruled that popular Internet video site YouTube must hand over details about what people watch online. The decision filed Wednesday by U.
A judge's order to divulge log-ons and Internet Protocol addresses in a Viacom copyright case could lead to users' identities being revealed, some fear. A billion-dollar court clash between old- and new-media giants took on unexpected privacy ramifications this week when a federal judge ordered YouTube to hand over the log-on names and Internet addresses of every person who had viewed material on the Web's top video site -- tens of millions of people.
Google Inc., the owner of YouTube, said it's seeking to remove users' login information from a database of all videos viewed on YouTube that it must turn over to Viacom Inc.
Image: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/1628/viacommylv3.gif Just when you thought the dispute was over, Viacom now wants more money and more private information. ---Quote--- For every video on YouTube, the judge required Google to turn over to Viacom the login name of every user who had watched it, and the address of their computer, known as an I.
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