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Sunday, July 20, 2008 --- 32 days ago http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2008/07/ongoing-analysis-of-youtube-viacom.html
| News has moved quickly since Wednesday's ruling by Judge Louis Stanton in Viacom et. al. vs YouTube et. al., the landmark ruling ordering the transfer of all YouTube user histories. Foremost, Google has indicated it will not appeal the ruling , choosing instead to fight the battle in the court of public opinion. To that extent, Google lawyers have reached out to Viacom , offering to anonymize the transferred logs. Viacom attorneys seem to be open to the option , but have not agreed to anything binding. Viacom attorneys have stated that they won't be able to follow the RIAA model and suing individual users. In an article posted today, Saul Hansell of the New York Times disagrees , stating: "Viacom says that it isn’t going to use the information from Google to sue individual YouTube users for copyright infringement, but there is nothing under the law to stop it from doing so." This wealth of information, tied with a ribbon and presented to Viacom, will present intriguing, appealing options. Why not sue YouTube users, demolishing trust in the net's eminent video-distribution brand? What role does Google play in this mess? While not a viable option for a public company, Google could have settled the lawsuit in lieu of turning over our information. Additionally, Google's practices of storing information for 18 months - far longer than necessary - compounds the snakebite here. If Google regularly expunged or anonymized our records, damage cou ... |
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