Google to hand over files to viacom!

pjalive21

why do they care so much what im uploading and watching?

are they that power hungry?

catefrances

Heineken Helen wrote:

Excellent! Keep me updated!

Figuratively :(

yes helen... figuratively.

Heineken Helen

pjalive21 wrote:

why do they care so much what im uploading and watching?

are they that power hungry?

that's what i don't understand... why spend so much money, do so much work, ensuring that they get this info... if there's absolutely nothing that they can/will do with it. It makes no sense.

Urban Hiker

Heineken Helen wrote:

my problem is legitimising and legalising it for them. I thought my problem is pretty obvious. They have no right to that information.

Thank you.

Heineken Helen

Urban Hiker wrote:

Thank you.

You're welcome

fanch75

Heineken Helen wrote:

New York

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/26-new-york-city/

Stuff White People Like
#26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
January 26, 2008 by clander

Often times if you ask a white person about where to travel, you will get a lot of responses. But if you ask them about New York, white people will go nuts. They love the city universally and all either live there, have lived there, will live there or want to live there.

White people like New York because it has artists, restaurants, a subway, history, diversity, plays, and other white people. It literally has everything white people need to thrive! The only thing it’s missing is nature, but Central Park is right there, and since you are walking all the time, you are outside!

If you are from New York, tell this to a white person. They will instantly be interested in you “what part of New York? and you are really from there?” When they inevitably tell you about your home town (”I know this great italian place…”) you should respond by saying “man, I thought place was only known to New Yorkers.”

Another secret fact about white people, if you are in group setting and the topic of New York City comes up, find the highest ranking white person and say “oh, are you from New York?”

To them, this means you are calling them cultured, cool, and urban. They will respond with something like “oh, well, I’ve spent a lot of time there,” or “I lived there for three years.” You will have instantly become more popular than all other people in the group.

Rhinocerous Surprise

http://www.freewebs.com/stuffrhinolikes/sayingwhatsthatfanchie.htm

Heineken Helen

fanch75 wrote:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/26-new-york-city/

Stuff White People Like
#26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
January 26, 2008 by clander

Often times if you ask a white person about where to travel, you will get a lot of responses. But if you ask them about New York, white people will go nuts. They love the city universally and all either live there, have lived there, will live there or want to live there.

White people like New York because it has artists, restaurants, a subway, history, diversity, plays, and other white people. It literally has everything white people need to thrive! The only thing it’s missing is nature, but Central Park is right there, and since you are walking all the time, you are outside!

If you are from New York, tell this to a white person. They will instantly be interested in you “what part of New York? and you are really from there?” When they inevitably tell you about your home town (”I know this great italian place…”) you should respond by saying “man, I thought place was only known to New Yorkers.”

Another secret fact about white people, if you are in group setting and the topic of New York City comes up, find the highest ranking white person and say “oh, are you from New York?”

To them, this means you are calling them cultured, cool, and urban. They will respond with something like “oh, well, I’ve spent a lot of time there,” or “I lived there for three years.” You will have instantly become more popular than all other people in the group.

Been to NY twice... does nothing for me :rolleyes:

But again... you're completely attempting to derail this thread.

fanch75

I bet you love Coldplay.

Heineken Helen

fanch75 wrote:

I bet you love Coldplay.

Nope... but there are very few people listen to as much white persons music as you do... kiss??? :eek:

catefrances

Heineken Helen wrote:

Been to NY twice... does nothing for me :rolleyes:
...

what would it need for it to 'do it' for you helen?

Heineken Helen

catefrances wrote:

what would it need for it to 'do it' for you helen?

No idea Cate... it's just missing that homeliness and that warmth and welcoming that I've found in other cities. It's my least favourite place in the states that I've been to so far. Just SOMETHING missing... I dunno! It's alright, I'd still go back and I've had a great time...but I never came away thinking I must go back

you are

ok, i don't know if this has been mentioned or not but - the people who are supposed to be showing us music videos, have a problem with us watching music videos (or whatever) online?? how are we supposed to watch them? VH1 and MTV never show music videos and if they do, they cut them short OR they show them at 3am.

i haven't uploaded any, but honestly i'm glad that some people do or i would never see a video.

Im still here

Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.

The two companies are in the discovery part of the case and must make certain information available to each other. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Google must turn over YouTube user activity--videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames.

Google responded on Thursday in a statement to the court's order.

"We are pleased the court put some limits on discovery," Google said in the statement, "including refusing to allow Viacom to access users' private videos and our search technology. We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history. We are asking Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."

CNET News.com reported that Viacom is under strict instructions from the court not to use the data for anything other than proving the prevalence of infringement on YouTube.

Viacom, therefore, is forbidden from targeting individual users in the manner of the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuits against individuals found to be downloading illegal music.

The case is important to Internet users because it could help define the scope of the safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That's the part of copyright law that Google and other Internet service providers claim protects them from being held responsible for the actions of their users.

Don't look for the case to get to court anytime soon. The discovery part of the case isn't expected to end until sometime next year.

What might prove interesting in the meantime is that among the people Google has asked to depose are Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of the The Colbert Report.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9983702-7.html

it's not over, 'til it's over.........

Heineken Helen

thanks for the update I didn't expect google to give up too easily anyway.