Common Sense Prevails In Google-Viacom Privacy Mess

Posted by rsmiller on Jul 16, 2008 9:14 AM EDT
DaniWeb TechTreasures; By Ron Miller
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That collective sigh of relief you hear this morning is probably the millions of YouTube users who are relieved that Google and Viacom have reached an agreement to protect their privacy. All I can say is thank goodness that common sense prevailed for once.

I am sure I was not alone in my anger and outrage when word got out earlier this month that a federal judge had ruled in a copyright infringement case against Google involving its YouTube property, that the plaintiff Viacom had the right to see YouTube logs to see which copyrighted material was used, but also included a free pass to access user names and IP addresses.

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