Freedom dead in Fascist state of AmeriKKKa.
V for Vendicar
Jul 3 03:57 PM US/Eastern
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge
overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has
ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches
which video clips and when.
U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the
YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they
needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more
heavily watched than amateur clips.
The data would not be publicly released but disclosed only to the
plaintiffs, and it would include less specific identifiers than a user's
real name or e-mail address.
Lawyers for Google Inc., which owns YouTube, said producing 12
terabytes of data-equivalent to the text of roughly 12 million books-would
be expensive, time-consuming and a threat to users' privacy.
The database includes information on when each video gets played,
which can be used to determine how often a clip is viewed. Attached to each
entry is each viewer's unique login ID and the Internet Protocol, or IP,
address for that viewer's computer.
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