So today Wired.com posted an article which I believe effects just about anyone with an internet connection. The article is entitled; "Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom". To quote the article,"Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.", unbelievable. So, even though I've never posted a video containing material which the company Viacom owns My Youtube info and Ip address will be handed over to a company I actually hate, not only because of this ruling, or because of the lawsuit they filed, but mostly because of their truely mind-numbing programming. If you've seen the two Boondocks episodes which were not aired, you should know exactly what I mean! Specifically the program choices of Nickelodeon and BET, as a child I used to watch Nickelodeon all the time, my favorite televisions shows were among many others; 'Are you afraid of the dark', 'Rocko's modern life', 'Doug', 'Ren & Stimpy'....I could go on and on, but I won't. If your at all familiar with this network you know these shows are no longer aired, but Viacom has also decided not to release any of these shows on dvd, so what choice do I have if I decided that I wanted to feel nostalgic and watch an episode of, 'Doug'? Well the odds are someone probably got some of the episodes up on Youtube.com, and you know what I'm going to try to find them and watch them! Viacom has left us with very little in the way of choices! For instance, if they were to have released any of these shows on dvd I'd probably own them. As a matter of fact I DO OWN the first two seasons of, 'Pete and Pete', a show originally aired on Nickelodeon. alright, so I can somewhat understand the whole arguement about copyrights, I really can, but why do you need the Youtube.com user's info?? When I created a user account with Youtube.com about two years ago, the little box I check stating that I understood the T.O.S. this wasn't something that was included, I did not agree to what this ruling is demanding of the Youtube web site! I feel that as a user my rights of privacy are being completely destroyed, and why?? Frankly I'm not really sure!!! Sure hold YouTube.com liable for what they let their users posted, if they post material which is copyrighted; Take it down, that's their responsibility. For Christ's sake! I have nothing to do with it, even if I have watched a video someone else posted using copyrighted material! HEY Mr. Redstone, don't you have some dying to do!!!
Check out that article on wired:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/judge-orders-yo.html
~Damian A. Dimock
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