Saturday, August 2, 2008

MOZILLA LET ME IN FOLKS

INTERNET EXPLORER SUCKS! I am starting to agree with the many people who say GET RID OF IE and go with Mozilla...! Can anybody explain why IE wouldn't let me open CULTUREOFLIFE.COM and Mozilla would? GT
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geist said...

GT.. can you open a Weekend comments thread???

like the good old days =)

I have an article I would like to share with everyone

August 2, 2008 at 8:08 AM
geist said...

Chaos as YouTube ordered to turn over all user viewing histories

Thu Jul 3, 2008 1:27PM EDT

Viacom's war against YouTube over the illegal reposting of video content it owns has finally won it a huge victory in the court of law. Last night a judge ruled that YouTube (and owner Google) is required to turn over a mountain of information to Viacom, including every user's IP address and user name and a list of every video that user has ever watched on the service. (Yes, that's a lot of data.) Google is also required to give Viacom a copy of every video it has ever taken down from the YouTube service, regardless of the reason.

The usual user advocates are naturally calling this a catastrophic failure of the courts to recognize users' right to privacy, but the courts have relied on Google's own defense of its data retention tactics (which holds that an IP address alone won't reveal personal information about a user) as a justification for the verdict. That's one thing, but by demanding user names along with IP addresses, that argument goes out the window. Many are already speculating that Viacom will sue the users who watched the videos as a next step. Heck, it's so popular with the RIAA, why not try it here?

Will Google comply with the order? Good question. It's already being speculated that if it does users will file a massive class action suit against Google in retaliation, and they'd be right to do so. Certainly the release of AOL user search history debacle isn't so far behind us that we've forgotten those lessons already (though in fairness, AOL's data release was its own doing, not a legal judgment).

This issue will likely not stop here as the combatants continue to fight it out in court, but in the meantime, the sobering reality is that it's time to rethink what you're watching on YouTube (or any other video sharing service, for that matter), as it's all too likely that's about to become a matter of public record.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/97630

August 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM
GOLDTRADER said...

geist...

DONE!

I got in through Mozilla.

Your article is also on GT's Group I see..

Good work!

August 2, 2008 at 10:59 AM

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