Judge orders YouTube to give all user histories to Viacom

oh crap

Why bully youtube after all tihngs why not something else...?

Boycott Viacom.

Write the CEO's of advertisers on Viacom programs and tell them you'll boycott their products if Viacom doesn't withdraw it's unconstitutional request for personal viewing records of Americans.

I knew someone who worked in a slaughter house. He told me how they would kill the lambs. First they sprinkle them with warm water. It makes them so calm. They make soft noises and sigh. The warm water becomes really comfy now. And then POOF--they slit their poor little innocent throats. If those lambs had a computer they would have realized that they are right out in the open for all to see. Now lions never get slaughtered like that. Lions are lions and they study how not to get taken in just because warm water feels so good and is so relaxing.
This will be used to fish for keyword searches. Each person will be profiled with the keywords they have used over the years. Somewhere there is a hatchery that has been collecting keywords and linking them with IPs and other information. They will now meld all of the information and with probable cause having been softened just recently...well, you finish the story.

If it is just a matter of counting who views what then why don't they just look at that the counter.
I put paranoia aside as I know that all boils down to copyrighted material and who should get paid for what. Just like a gallon of gas. It doesn't belong to us unless we make it. I would like to see the initial agreement that someone signs (usually without reading it) describing the exact terms of You Tube uploads. It's all about money. We had this free air on loan. It was a teaser. Now it's time for collections.
Private Ibber

(Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling described that argument as "speculative")

it is clear how this judge will rule already considering his view on violation of privacy.

Bootlegging has been going on since the invetory of sex. It's a part of theU.S. economy that never gets reported. Like piracy on the high seas, it'll never stop.

This is about keeping corporate control of information.

Keeping information from the people is the tool of police states.

Fair Use laws protect sharing information for research and non-profit purposes. Give credit to producers of copyrighted material. Most are happy you are getting their work to more people.

Information is power. Share and spread the word.

its things like this that make people upload copy righted materials onto the net. people see this and react by uploading a south park episode onto somewhere like dailymotion.
the music industry has had the same thing happen to it and only the smarter bands, like raidohead, offer people to download an album fo free.due to this they are more populer than metalica and the napster fiasco.

Another example of how U.S. Courts serve corporate interests and will violate the Constitution and the rights of the people whenever they interfere with corporate goals.

Thanks to Uroborus8 for posting contact info for Viacom.

Tell Viacom, you'll boycott their products and broadcasts if they don't withdraw the request for personal records and ip addresses of YouTube users.

Too disappointing for words.

This is IMPORTANT news thanks j jammer .

Outrageous decision - it must be overturned.

Viacom is dependent on the very people they are trying to "take down", the viewers. Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.

I say Boycott any and all Viacom productions!

omg this is crap... how do i change my ip address?

We need to sick anonymous on them. Forget Scientology! Viacom needs some internet "loving" from these guys.

Wow, I'm gonna miss Comedy Central. I haven't bought a CD in 8 years and I have no problem not watching TV.

LEAVE YOU TUBE ALONE!

GOOD! stealing peoples work is wrong and people who do it should get fined.

I wouldn't be surprised if Viacom is suing Google just to get users' private viewing information.
That information is worth more than anything Google would settle for.
It's a database of what the world is watching.
Those file are pure gold to marketing researchers.

Oh no, another copyright lawsuit! We're doom!

yeah, the source code thing aint gonna happen. Our names and all those dirty videos we've watched, fair game.

This is crazy. Did this ruling happened in America? I wonder how much bribe did the judge get for this ruling. We are totally losing our freedoms day by day, its one thing after another.

Wont this like scare people who put up those 9/11 truth videos? & if Google does hand it over, will FBI/CIA be able to use that to track who is doing what?

I hope Google has balls to stand up for its users.

Thanks Current, if it wasnt for Current I probably would not have known about this.

People need to wake up and take back America.

When all the lists are compiled of all users of U Tube they will be placed on the top terrorist lists in the US.

Admittedtly there are over thirty million users of U Tube but that matters not one iota you are all under surveillance by the government. All your names will be preceded by either Osma or Ali.

No excuses for viewing U Tube can be accepted as you are all infidels and very naughty. So beware! The lunatics are out of the asylum and are out to get you

RIDICULOUS!

Viacom, get over yourselves and quit crying about copyright infringement blah blah blah. If anything YouTube has HELPED the bastard company by having more people watch their content. What dumbasses.....

I feel sorry for the intern at Viacom who's gonna be forced to sift through those four terabytes of data.

They should sue Girls Gone Wild and get all those videos too. Some sheepish tech nerds will be locked in their offices for weeks "inspecting" the "evidence".

Is that going to happen to Current?

I better delete those videos of me blowing up kittens!

This is retarded for too many reasons.

Judge says, "Company A you must give Company B some of your private information so that they can use it against you." WTF?

Hey, we all agreed to privacy policies on those sites. So we sue who? Google? Viacom? The State?

Nooooooo, now everyone will know I watch "Ask a ninja" and Jpop videos =(

The only good thing about this story is that in the course of Viacom’s investigation someone is going to have to figure out what “2 girls 1 cup” is all about. When that happens I hope they throw up all over their little fascist keyboards.

The point here is that Viacom is violating the privacy of Youtube's users, whereas before it was just a few videos of pirated TV gone missing, now it's personal. They can and will see every video you've watched on Youtube.

i think you should only have to worry if you took video from there shows and then posted them on utube.
also if you got alot of money

i guess it's time to take down that "How to roll a blunt" video...

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Now I just need to find out which channels Viacom owns...To wikipedia!

Yeah, boycott Viacom, not Youtube. Notice how they asked for youtube's source code? They arent concerned with a billion dollars loss in business, they want to get the code so they can start their own youtube!

I smell a boycott...

Is this going to effect me watching dramatic look gopher?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54vtXRI32MQ&feature=related

This is so appalling!!!

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.

boycott viacom and everything they own

Ew, that's so creepy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nice find J jammer. Keep up the good work.

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

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!

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.

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?

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.

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

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 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.

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

How do I change my IP address?

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

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