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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. Re:Yikes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank God for "Don't be evil." They better not be.

    I don't think God had much to do with their adoption of "Don't be evil" as their corporate motto. PR concerns likely ranked much higher in that decision than God.

    And whether or not they do evil things will also have little to do with that motto.

    But if it makes you feel better, then it has done its job.

  2. "Won" an Agreement? by alcmaeon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Usually in English we say someone "reached an agreement" with someone else since it takes at least two parties to agree.

    But on Slashdot where Google can do no wrong, to suggest that Google had agreed with Viacom would tend to equate Google and Viacom or at least put their resepctive positions on a level footing. Since Viacom is the embodiment of evil (they are messing with Google, QED) and Google is pure good ('cause their business plan says so), this can't be.

    Ergo, we throw out common language conventions and show that Google had soundly thrashed and generally whupped Viacom-ass and wrung from the bloody corpse of smoldering evil that is Viacom the AGREEMENT, won in battle pitched, a holy talisman of user protection, not unlike the Grail of legend.