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YouTube Ordered To Release User Data: Viacom Had Sought Access to Database In Copyright Battle

US Politics & Gov't (tags: courts, law, Viacom, You Tube )

Michael
- 99 days ago - washingtonpost.com

A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world's third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers.

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Michael C. (220)

Friday July 4, 2008, 9:27 pm
First the Government wanted to know the reading habits of it's citizens and now Viacom wants to know the viewing habits of it's users. Where does privacy come in?

ROBIN M. (193)

Saturday July 5, 2008, 1:45 am
where i go and what i see is my busininess no olne elses if want people to know i iwlll tell them unless it is illigal then i can see why

honeysucklebarb Liebowitz (543)

Saturday July 5, 2008, 9:59 am
i am a private person if i don't want someone to know i tell them none of their buissneess

Heather Gregory (65)

Saturday July 5, 2008, 6:31 pm
What the hell is it any of their d*mn business what I look at on Youtube? F*** Viacom and all the other scum-sucking, filth-ridden bottomfeeders that make up big corporations, and f*** the government for doing the same thing and feeding right into bullsh** like this.

Past Member (0)

Saturday July 5, 2008, 7:08 pm
noted...

Michael C. (220)

Saturday July 5, 2008, 10:05 pm
I can agree with you Heather, Robin, Carol and Honey. What will they do with our data?

Will they let the government know what we've been up to?

Will they try to send us offers on what they THINK we might buy?

Or will they prosecute us all for copyright infringement?

They are going to great lengths to try to impose their will on us.

David Buchan (111)

Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:51 am
NOT GOOD...The plot "sickens"...Try this link and then hang out your 'dirty washing' for ALL to see...Why congress only? :)......
http://www.truthout.org/article/judge-rejects-bushs-view-wiretaps