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Do you like making fan vids on youtube, well guess what...

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    davymc993

    [1]Jul 8, 2008
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    A U.S. judge’s order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy. Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google. Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google on Tuesday to turn over as evidence a database with usernames of YouTube viewers, what videos they watched when, and users’ computer addresses.

    Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post the order “threatens to expose deeply private information” and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 federal law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork’s video rental habits were revealed. Representatives of both companies said they were looking to work out how to comply with the court order to share video data while ensuring personally identifiable information is secure. Viacom responded in a statement that it needs the data to demonstrate video piracy patterns that are the heart of its case against YouTube. But it sought to diffuse privacy fears, saying it had no interest in identifying individual users. You gotta be kidding me.

    This means that any youtube user who posts viacom material (avatar)on youtube personal information will be exposed to Viacom.
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    _Iroh_

    [2]Jul 8, 2008
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    sonnofa...
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    Blind_Legend

    [3]Jul 8, 2008
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    davymc993 wrote:
    This means that any youtube user who posts viacom material (avatar)on youtube personal information will be exposed to Viacom.


    0_0
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    suss2it

    [4]Jul 8, 2008
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    davymc993 wrote:
    This means that any youtube user who posts viacom material (avatar)on youtube personal information will be exposed to Viacom.
    You're like the smartest person on the Internet.
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    Spacerac

    [5]Jul 8, 2008
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    suss2it wrote:
    davymc993 wrote:
    This means that any youtube user who posts viacom material (avatar)on youtube personal information will be exposed to Viacom.
    You're like the smartest person on the Internet.
    for realz.
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    picaboomman

    [6]Jul 8, 2008
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    well thats not good
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    speechless8582

    [7]Jul 8, 2008
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    well shiat.
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    cg_619

    [8]Jul 8, 2008
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    That's why I go to livevideo.com
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    code_yumi

    [9]Jul 8, 2008
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    ****.

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    dantedones

    [10]Jul 8, 2008
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    ain't that some hell
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    carlsonem

    [11]Jul 8, 2008
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    This is what happens when liberals run big companies. They constantly need to change something to make themselves seem smart. If people simply cite their sources when they produce the videos viacoms claim of copyright infringement would be harder to uphold. therefore if a persons id is exposed to viacom then viacom infringes upon a persons 1st and 4th amendment rights. Also with viacoms knowledge of a person they could commit identity theft. Though that is not likely it could happen. What happened to to days were people respected the rights of others!
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    mark426

    [12]Jul 8, 2008
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    carlsonem wrote:
    This is what happens when liberals run big companies. They constantly need to change something to make themselves seem smart. If people simply cite their sources when they produce the videos viacoms claim of copyright infringement would be harder to uphold. therefore if a persons id is exposed to viacom then viacom infringes upon a persons 1st and 4th amendment rights. Also with viacoms knowledge of a person they could commit identity theft. Though that is not likely it could happen. What happened to to days were people respected the rights of others!
    Those days are long gone.
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    acr64

    [13]Jul 8, 2008
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    Well, this sucks.
    I'm going to be screwed by Viacom.
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    mark426

    [14]Jul 8, 2008
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    acr64 wrote:
    Well, this sucks.
    I'm going to be screwed by Viacom.
    Well, if Viacom controls Nick, and Nick controls Avatar, we've already been screwed.
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    edmasterchaos

    [15]Jul 8, 2008
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    *raises eyebrow* guys, you are believing information given by a guy with 2 posts, eachone to make a thread, and the other one being the "New episodes leaked" thread that only said "Hahaha i got you", that's not very good logic...
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    code_yumi

    [16]Jul 8, 2008
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    edmasterchaos wrote:
    *raises eyebrow* guys, you are believing information given by a guy with 2 posts, eachone to make a thread, and the other one being the "New episodes leaked" thread that only said "Hahaha i got you", that's not very good logic...
    But this is something I heard just early today, and lots of people on youtube are talking. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJbCWJNQUYI&feature=email
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    Eman5805

    [17]Jul 8, 2008
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    This order is still pending, and if it is, I'll join in on the class action suit against Viacom. This is BS. We have a right to privacy, we agreed to let YouTube have this info, but no Viacom.

    If this happens, don't take it lying down. Fight back. I hate the sue happy mindset people have, but I'm not too proud to fight fire with fire.
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    edmasterchaos

    [18]Jul 8, 2008
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    Eman5805 wrote:
    This order is still pending, and if it is, I'll join in on the class action suit against Viacom. This is BS. We have a right to privacy, we agreed to let YouTube have this info, but no Viacom. If this happens, don't take it lying down.

    Fight back. I hate the sue happy mindset people have, but I'm not too proud to fight fire with fire.
    This ^

    Ok, if the order takes in, i'll do anything to help the boycott, besides Avatar there isn't much i watch from Viacom, i'll just skip some movies and such.
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    MaddoKos

    [19]Jul 8, 2008
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    speechless8582 wrote:
    well shiat.

    Couldn't have put it better myself. Of course...I don't post any fanvids on youtube. Rather I rip off other peoples' vids and post them here.

    Edited on 07/08/2008 4:23pm
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    speechless8582

    [20]Jul 8, 2008
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    MaddoKos wrote:

    speechless8582 wrote:
    well shiat.

    Couldn't have put it better myself. Of course...I don't post any fanvids on youtube. Rather I rip off other peoples' vids and post them here.

    with skillz. lol.
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