Yer choice

Hello all,

The Fourth of July is upon us.... Remember that it is the occasion celebrating the separation from our cousins whom we felt were taxing us too much!


What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness

The end result will be that the identities of YouTube users in other countries will be identified.

To viacom.........that will be dangerous

L-A, you know when the "rant" beings, I'll take the opposite view: but that doesn't change my respect for you! Don't tell you husband. I know he is armed!!! The 2'nd amendment is alive!
Leah-Ann, you are an unique individual; so what's there not to love!

Bob, you are a discerning fellow!!

And, way too far into the jug

It appears that both companies are doing their best to protect the individual users privacy. This isn't about going after individual Youtube viewers for damages - it is about Viacom getting every possible cent out of Google in copyright infringement damages.

From NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/technology/04youtube.html?ref=technology (free membership required)

""In a letter sent Thursday, Google’s lawyers pressed their counterparts at Viacom to accept a more limited set of data. “We request that plaintiffs agree that YouTube may redact user names and I.P. addresses from the viewing data in the interests of protecting user privacy,” wrote David H. Kramer, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

In a response, a Viacom lawyer wrote that Viacom was “committed to working with Google” on the privacy issue.""

But of course companies are in business to make money. And if they have rights to certain monies aren't they entitled to demand payment for the services that were rendered?

I'm not saying that I don't watch "pirated" tv shows/dvds if the copyright police need to make crack downs, then so be it. We wouldn't have all of those fine movies, clips and tv shows to watch if it wasn't for those big boys producing them!