YouTube Turning Over Logs

Lawsuit Youtube A judge has ordered YouTube to turn over information on who has been watching video clips on their website and when.

by Associated Press

Published: Fri, July 04, 2008 - 6:03 am CST Last Updated: Fri, July 04, 2008 - 6:07 am CST

NEW YORK (AP) - Just imagine all the people who check in to see
all the videos on YouTube. Well, dismissing privacy concerns, a
federal judge overseeing a billion dollar copyright-infringement
lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the company to disclose who
watches which video clips and when. The judge authorized full
access to the YouTube logs after Viacom and other copyright holders
argued that they needed the info to show whether their
copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur
clips. The data isn't supposed to be publicly released but
disclosed only to the plaintiffs, and it will include less specific
identifiers than a user's real name or e-mail address. Lawyers for
Google, which owns YouTube, says 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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carl Says:

Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 7:30 pm

You were probably not born yet when Water Gate occurred in the Richard Nixon’s term. His secretary supposedly accidentally erased a lot of data(tape back then) implicating him and others of covering up some of their dastardly deeds. If you needed to lose incriminating evidence of some kind they would say” give it to Richard’s secretary”. In this case a power outage and a good EMP would do the job.

igotbanned83 Says:

Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 7:10 pm

Explain Carl.

carl Says:

Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Where,OH Where is President Nixon’s secretary when you need her ?

igotbanned83 Says:

Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 1:33 pm

You know what I believe is the worst part about this entire thing? The hundreds who will read this and think nothing of it. Its exactly why we are in the position that we are in, bc we are ignorant. Big Brother is watching and no one realizes it bc those who question it are conspiracy theorists. The mere thought that questioning our gov’t has turned into a conspiracy theort nutcase behavior or Anti-American is pathetic, sad, and gutless. Give someone power and they will dominate. Just as they have, and are.