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

by Holly Jackson

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.

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by sgrmba July 3, 2008 4:26 PM PDT
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?
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by colamix July 3, 2008 4:57 PM PDT
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!
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