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Please check this video out as well. I will be doing a follow up video soon for more clarification on this subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmyGrDIW5k
Viacom vs you. Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.
The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement.
Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a "set-back to privacy rights".
The viewing log, which will be handed to Viacom, contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details.
While the legal battle between the two firms is being contested in the US, it is thought the ruling will apply to YouTube users and their viewing habits everywhere.
Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has alleged that YouTube is guilty of massive copyright infringement.
The UK's Premier League association is also seeking class action status with Viacom on the issue, alleging YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, has been used to watch football highlights.
Legal action
When it initiated legal action in March 2007 Viacom said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes on the website, which had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
Following the launch of its billion-dollar lawsuit, YouTube introduced filtering tools in an effort to prevent copyright materials from appearing on the site.
The US court declined Viacom's request that Google be forced to hand over the source code of YouTube, saying it was a "trade secret" that should not be disclosed.
But it said privacy concerns expressed by Google about handing over the log were "speculative".
Google's senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said in a statement: "We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's over-reaching demand for viewing history.
"We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymise the logs before producing them under the court's order."
The ruling will see the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users given to Viacom, totalling more than 12 terabytes of data.
Viacom said it wanted the data to "compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing video with that of non-infringing videos."
YouTube and Google had "compelled" it to go to court, Viacom said, "by continuing to defend their illegal and irresponsible conduct and profiting from copyright infringement, when they could be implementing the safe and legal user generated content experience they promise".
It said it would not be asking for any "personally identifiable information" of any user.
"Any information that we or our outside advisors obtain will be used exclusively for the purpose of proving our case against You Tube and Google (and) will be handled subject to a court protective order and in a highly confidential manner."
'Erroneous ruling'
Leading privacy expert Simon Davies told BBC News that the privacy of millions of YouTube users was threatened.
He said: "The chickens have come home to roost for Google.
"Their arrogance and refusal to listen to friendly advice has resulted in the privacy of tens of millions being placed under threat."
Mr Davies said privacy campaigners had warned Google for years that IP addresses were personally identifiable information.
Google pledged last year to anonymise IP addresses for search information but it has said nothing about YouTube data.
Mr Davies said: "Governments and organisations are realising that companies like Google have a warehouse full of data. And while that data is stored it is under threat of being used and putting privacy in danger."
The EFF said: "The Court's erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube.
"We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users."
The body said the ruling was also potentially unlawful because the log data did contain personally identifiable data.
The court also ruled that Google disclose to Viacom the details of all videos that have been removed from the site for any reason.
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Thank you to our Guest Of The Week, ModernOracle for bein' on our very first show! ModernO
Thank you to our Guest Of The Week, ModernOracle for bein' on our very first show! ModernOracle has been a key contributer to the YouTube Community, not only because of his Audio Prophecy show, that features the best talent on the tube, but also for the Online Music Database, which helps musicians network and get there music heard out there (This was where I started!) Not only that, but Greg is a PHENOMENAL MUSICIAN as well... be sure to visit him here: http://www.youtube.com/ModernOracle - You will be able to find all of the goods there!
By Order Of Appearance:
Jason plays "Virgil T. Riley" - Jason is one of the funniest guys I have met on YouTube - AND a phenomenal musician as well - be sure to visit him and check out all that he has to offer, including music you can use for your videos for FREE - imagine that!!! Jason is NEVER short of CREATIVITY!!! http://www.youtube.com/audionautix
Jane plays "Calamity Jane" - One of my best budddies on this har tube! Jane is one of THE most supportive persons I have met here on YouTube and is always willing to help others out with promoting themselves and others on the tube. AND we got'z ta show up in her bathroom too! HoooWWeeeeee!!!! Jane is also a GREAT singer/songstress and YOU MUST visit her!
http://www.youtube.com/Cameragirl803
Dave Haffner plays "Billy-Bob MacAdoo" Dave is another fellow guitarist on the tube and I got to really find out what kind of person he and his wife were when I had them in my video "Time & Place" - one of the biggest hearts out there!! The reason why Dave got this job in our show, was the fact that a few months back, he posted a vidjoe of himself at work - he is an actual appliance repairman for an unnamed large company (Shhhhh LOL). So, if anyone of you are complainin' that YOU didn't get the job, well, start postin films of yourself at work on YouTube... and see what may happen as a result LOL http://www.youtube.com/Dhaffner101
Lorrie Lawless is one hot chick that I just may get lucky with.
Dbug2005 provided our question of the week and for a little Y'all Tube trivia, Don is one helluva harmonica player, you can actually hear him play harmonica on a video Annie Canada showed up in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7upXf41R58 thanks Don! http://www.youtube.com/Dbug2005
Largo64 provided us with the "Showed Up or Blowed Up" Segment - great job Larry and congrats gettin on our first episode. http://www.youtube.com/Largo64
Leah Clark IS Eunice Florenster and you can find her nicer side here: http://www.youtube.com/specialeah - Leah has been my buddy for years, and has one of the most beautiful singing voices you will ever hear. Chocked full of talent, I discovered her FINE acting abilities during the making of "Feed The Dogs" - we love you Leah!!!!
And last but not least, I would like to thank dionsansoucie for starting me on all this stuff. Yup, thanks Dion for your video that sparked a whole chain of cool events my friend. I sure don't know you a whole lot, but the stuff we have done together really shows a great person inside there! Go see the vidjoe that inspired all of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxuBQJ87J2M
Sorry I babled for so long, but this was quite a project and some great people involved - show us yer love by subscribing and come back EVERY Friday night for our show! HoooWeeee! Thanks to everyone who helped and all of you that support us - you make me wanna do more!! Virgil http://www.youtube.com/VirgilGuitar
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A short film we put together at ToobStock 2008 after we discovered our friend anmoose (Moo
A short film we put together at ToobStock 2008 after we discovered our friend anmoose (Moosie) was missing.
We had so much fun there! Pass this along!
Be sure to visit all of my fellow tuberz that appeared in this video ay?
http://www.youtube.com/Artgirlsreality
http://www.youtube.com/CrystallampProd
http://www.youtube.com/laurajean13
http://www.youtube.com/mammagraham
http://www.youtube.com/AnnieCanada
http://www.youtube.com/TheBorgLives
http://www.youtube.com/Cameragirl803
http://www.youtube.com/strat2caster
http://www.youtube.com/specialeah
http://www.youtube.com/zoydster
http://www.youtube.com/specialeah
http://www.youtube.com/maddmaxx52
http://www.youtube.com/Christine66
http://www.youtube.com/anmoose
http://www.youtube.com/hamnhock
Be sure to visit Farm To Family as well:
http://www.youtube.com/farm2family
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Charlie (7) played this piece in a recent recital. His teachers said it's the best they've
Charlie (7) played this piece in a recent recital. His teachers said it's the best they've heard him playing. Too bad the hall echoed too much, but I'm sure you'd still enjoy the music! BTW, Charlie got plenty of new pieces, we hope to update with new pieces more often in the coming weeks.
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Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends." Woodstock, 1969. Closed captioned for
Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends." Woodstock, 1969. Closed captioned for the clear-headed.
http://www.jaredpike.com
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