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Viacom Vs. You & Youtube *FIGHT*
Google's senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said in a statement: "We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's over-reaching demand for viewing history.
"We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymise the logs before producing them under the court's order."
The ruling will see the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users given to Viacom, totalling more than 12 terabytes of data.
Viacom said it wanted the data to "compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing video with that of non-infringing videos."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm
Be interesting to see if Viacom will be satisfied with the login details / IP addresses of users being masked. If it's purely statistical data they're after then it shouldn't be an issue.
Google's senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said in a statement: "We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's over-reaching demand for viewing history.
"We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymise the logs before producing them under the court's order."
The ruling will see the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users given to Viacom, totalling more than 12 terabytes of data.
Viacom said it wanted the data to "compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing video with that of non-infringing videos."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm
Be interesting to see if Viacom will be satisfied with the login details / IP addresses of users being masked. If it's purely statistical data they're after then it shouldn't be an issue.
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