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YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom
psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as 'speculative' and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four terabyte hard drives." Update: 07/03 18:05 GMT by T : Brian Aker, now of MySQL but long ago Slashdot's "database thug," writes a journal entry on how companies could intelligently treat such potentially sensitive user data.
... and another judge who deserves to have his head ripped off and shit down his neck, after he gets to watch his wife and children violated.
Oh, look. We got this email from Rinisari urging us to fight this with all of our power. We were going to only use some of our power, but since he asked, I guess we will use all of our power.
The government is usurping more and more of your personal information and your freedoms, one step at time. How long do you think it will be before people start ending up in jail because of what they have watched on youtube?//////////////Read the 14 points of fascism on oldamericancentury.org, and you see that Bush qualifies on all 14 points that Hitler and Mussolini did. Be afraid. Be very afraid.//////////Aren't structural and legal impediments what prevented the intercept of the 9/11 planes, at least according to Condollezza Rice?/////////////America is in serious trouble these days, and the threat isn't coming from without. Anyone care to argue?