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Remember that pirated clip you were watching on YouTube? Viacom will soon know it was you

Started by Duncan Riley · 5 months ago

Google has been ordered to hand over details of every video ever watched on YouTube to Viacom, along with user names and IP addresses.

The decision was handed down by the United States District Court (Southern District of New York) in the ongoing Viacom action against YouTube, ... Continue reading »

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  • Oh my gosh .. my 6-year old daughter watched some clips of "Clifford the bid red dog" on Youtube. How do I explain to her that she will now be going to jail for that ? :-)
  • This is a complete invasion of privacy on the part of Viacom and our user information doesn’t have any relevance to their billion dollar lawsuit against Google. Google should be able to anatomize the user information before handing over 12 terabytes of personal information so my privacy and the privacy of millions like me are protected. I have a campaign that will force Viacom to allow Google/YouTube to protect us or 100,000 will boycott Viacom and all its subsidiaries: https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/stop-viacom-...

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