Comments on: YouTube Hands Over User Data to Viacom

By: TylerM

TylerM — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:23:30 +0000

George Bush does the same thing with phone records but it’s for our defense. If you believe in the capitalist idea, this is for the defense of a corporation, and you have to support it. That is, if you support George Bush.

By: Sam30

Sam30 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:21:00 +0000

yeah, the main thing is the precedent this sets…nanny ntions here we come?

By: JoshIVM

JoshIVM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:16:32 +0000

Tyler you’re right in the fact that is what they’re saying they want, but the issue here is a court case sets precedent. I understand what they’re trying to do but this opens up a dangerous option to invade privacy that can be abused by whoever. Hopefully this is appealed and taken to a higher court because this is a pretty big case.

By: TylerM

TylerM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:46:07 +0000

There is 12TB of data, they are not targeting specific people. They are seeing if Google is lying about the way they detect copyrighted material and if the algorithm they use does find copyrighted content.

By: bloodwater

bloodwater — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:41:12 +0000

here’s a CNN article about it
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/07/03/youtubelawsuit.ap/
why do you think Google would want Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert questioned?

By: One Crushing Blow

One Crushing Blow — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:35:01 +0000

This doesn’t look good for me, because I’m a huge fan of PG 300 and stuff like that…

By: LenIVM

LenIVM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:39:40 +0000

Funny that this was posted on a Canadian site.