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[Camaro]

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

This is very bad for everyone.

Edited by Camaro, 03 July 2008 - 07:04 PM.

[stormrosson]

holy crap that's an understatement Gene, this is just no good at all

[Nvyseal]

update

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“We are pleased the court put some limits on discovery,” Google said in the statement, “including refusing to allow Viacom to access users’ private videos and our search technology. We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history. We are asking Viacom to respect users’ privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court’s order.”

CNET News.com reported that Viacom is under strict instructions from the court not to use the data for anything other than proving the prevalence of infringement on YouTube.

Viacom, therefore, is forbidden from targeting individual users in the manner of the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuits against individuals found to be downloading illegal music.


What might prove interesting in the meantime is that among the people Google has asked to depose are Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of the The Colbert Report.

Cnet News

[godless]

This is ridiculous... HUGE invasion of privacy..

I wonder how many people watched lonelygirl...

[m.oreilly]

godless, on Jul 3 2008, 07:55 PM, said:

This is ridiculous...
I wonder how many people watched lonelygirl...

[Neological]

Thats just horribly stupid.