Judge orders YouTube to give all user histories to Viacom

ohohoh now imma be on sum terrorist list 4 sure, god damn the day i became a registered youtube user, hehehe

I wonder what they'll think of my viewing list, lol.

How do I change my IP address?

Everyone, get out of youtube as you still can! If we don't, they think that terrorist watch Weezer videos all day.

This seems like real bad justice. As this kind of forced information sharing may give a more detailed picture of your and my actions to big corporations and big brother, us little guys will suffer.

I'm wondering if the ACLU might be interested in this, although I'm sure that Thomas Jefferson would never have dreamed of the internet.

It seems weird that I might ever consider donating to a legal defense fund for Google, considering the big $$$$ they control.

I have to wonder...why does Google track and keep all that info anyway? I guess it's valuable information that perhaps they can use to attract advertisers...but right now, it seems like a smarter move to stop tracking all that stuff.

This is a pretty crazy ruling..will be interesting to see how it all plays out

I think it is amazing that our courts order Google to help them violate our right to privacy! Why does Vaicom need to access a YouTube's user's IP address?

The only reason I can think of how and why this could be of use in a lawsuit against Google, is because Viacom might want to generate lawsuits against users who have watched or uploaded copy written TV material to YouTube.

I hope that this act by Viacom results in the whole matter being taken to the Supreme Court.
This is a unbelievable breach of trust.

I think it's going to all play out badly.

The day that phone companies started offering people unlimited access to facebook on their mobile phones is the day that the internet became like a cable TV subscription.

Maybe our days enjoying an unregulated information free for all are coming to an end. That is surely a bad thing?

Forget about your ip address! That it is a joke as they can not trace it unless you have a server with a permanent ip. Most people run on dynamic connections. Trying to trace an ip address from someone on a dynamic connection is the same as trying to find a sprinkle of sand in the desert. They might just trace you by looking in your account if you have a real name there.

why do they need ip addresses? you can obviously tell which videos are most viewed and popular without giving all that information. this is bull shit!

I would like to see what The Daily Show says about this. They are owned by viacom.

Nice find J jammer. Keep up the good work.

I wonder if this sets some dangerous precedent. And I also wonder if Google will appeal.

I use to crack password protected websites so I can tell you from experience that protecting your ip address can be very important. When someone cracks a website they hid behind the ip address of another person. You can also use those addresses to surf the web and look up whatever sick crap tickles your fancy. So this is what I would suggest.

First download Tor. This program works like a mini internet within the internet. Instead of taking a direct route to your destination, like a webpage, your data packet randomly hops around a series of channels. This makes it very hard for someone to tell what you are looking at.

The second thing I would download is Privoxy. This program is also free and it rocks. With it you can block your ip address from websites like Youtube. As an added bonus it blocks banners and ads so that when you surf your computer runs faster because it is not processing unnecessary junk.

Tor website http://www.torproject.org/

Privoxy website http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa

And this one will show you how to get them to work together http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Anonymity_with_Tor_and_Privoxy

Last thing I would suggest is download Acidmax, an IRC program. Get the server address from Tor and connect to their chat room. There are always people online 24/7 that are willing to offer advice on how to tweak Tor and Privoxy. Plus it’s easier for someone to walk you through installation via a chat room then reading an instruction manual.

Once you get everything installed both programs run like a dream. With one click you can turn them on or off at whim. So when I surf current I usually have it off but when I fire up bit torrent I turn it on so I don't have to worry about the feds busting down my door.

Welcome to the New World Order. A Judge is now infringing on our privacy. This is horrible. But what are we gonna do about it? Complain on a forum-based website, or are we actually going to set out and write the Supreme Courts, OUR elected officials? Probably not. And that is the sad truth.

how do people expect to have privacy on the internet. everyone should know the internet is not secure. everything you click is recorded and can be tracked. i believe the internet is very flawed but its a great social network

Great now Viacom knows my name and IP. Corporations really are evil, and to me they have alterior motives.

Welcome to the New World Order!
Viacom is a strong company, hell just google what thier assests are. This is going to be a long battle for Google

Privacy on the internet has been gone for quite some time.
Viacom is doing the same thing the records company did. Find any and every person that downloaded a song and sue them.
I sincerely hope it comes back and bites Viacom in the ass the way it did the record companies.
Writing your congressman and senators is very easy when you use email. I do it with rights and environmental issues all the time.

Ew, that's so creepy.

boycott viacom and everything they own

my first thought after reading this was that viacom was just going to see a bunch of custom guitar hero video on my list. maybe some south park too.

then i thought, oh crap, now that i think about it, there is some stuff on there i wouldn't want people to know about.