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Google Wins Agreement To Anonymize YouTube Logs

Posted by timothy on from the have-in-my-hand-a-list dept.

Barence, following up on yesterday's news that Viacom is looking for videos uploaded by Google staff, links to an article at PC Pro, excerpting: "Google and Viacom have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers. Earlier this month, a New York federal judge ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom and other plaintiffs to help them prepare a confidential study of what they argue are vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site. Google claims it had now agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys with a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube usernames and IP addresses that could be used to identify individual video watchers."

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  1. My First First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..done anonymously.

    1. Re:My First First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      My first anonymous EPIC FAIL reply to an EPIC FAILed first post attempt.

  2. Re:Yikes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you seen the Visa ads where everyone uses a Visa card and the line flows smoothly while the guy with money gums up the works, exactly the opposite of how the real world works?

    What? It's not the 90's anymore. Credit card transactions are far faster than any other form. I hate getting behind people with checks (exactly what they show in the commercial). Even cash is slow if the person's into exact change or is poor and can't find enough bills. The real fraud in those ads is the "check card", which hurts everyone except Visa. Those suck so bad, Visa had to use product forcing to get them into the marketplace.

    I see deceptive ads all the time on TV and I'm sick of it. I don't understand why they are tolerated, but you example was a poor one. Race to the bottom capitalism isn't healthy.