Google Lawyers Look to Hide
Posted on Friday, July 04 @ 04:33:22 CDT by Raulken |
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By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and MERISSA MARR Lawyers for Google Inc. Thursday asked Viacom Inc. for permission to better hide information that might help personally identify YouTube users before Google complies with a judge's demand that it hand over...
 FONT SIZE EMAIL PRINT SHARE RSS 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. (The Associated Press) 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. Related YouTube Suit Called Threat to InternetWii Will Rock You: Rock Band Hits WiiMedia, Web Companies Set Copyright Rules The database includes...
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