News.com Daily Podcast: Should YouTube users worry about privacy?

In the latest turn in Viacom's copyright infringement suit against YouTube and parent company Google, a federal judge ruled that Google must hand over YouTube users' IP addresses and user names, plus a history of videos they've viewed. The court order stipulates that data turned over to Viacom by Google must be used solely to prove Viacom's claim that YouTube is a hotbed of pirated video content. But the Electronic Frontier Foundation stills sees the ruling as a blow to user privacy. CNET News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy tells News.com's Leslie Katz why.

Plus, we talk to photographer Kevin Connolly. Born without legs, the self-proclaimed "camera geek" skateboarded through 15 countries taking digital pictures of strangers' expressions as they saw him roll by. He talks about the many reactions--and assumptions--he captured as part of The Rolling Exhibition.

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[sgrmba]

Why isn't a count of viewings satisfactory? Why fully invade individual privacy? The total count and the total count of unique views should be enough to prove or disprove their case, right?

[colamix]

Media conglomerates are unable to wield tangible profits from the web so the only solution is to destroy it. Idiots don't realize that for every partial clip users watch they are not watching their competitors' content!