【整理】Issue 114 谷歌被判需向制作公司提供用户信息
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Youtube's multi-million pounds access was built initially on user-generated content. So successful it has become, the company zona, Google recently announced plans to A contribute shares on advertising revenue. But as anyone who used this site knows it doesn't, there're also vast amounts of professionally made material. So Via says, one film TV giant should it be paid as well.
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Viacom's cases are far from being user-generated, much of youtube's most popular content is actually made at great expense on a commercial bases by film and television companies. And for such material, simply to be regurgitated free of charge on what essentially is rival channel, amongst copyright thieft.
Viacom
The New York court has granted viacom access to google's records, internet protocol addresses, every individual signature over every individual computer which has been used to watch clips on the site. Viacom has given what's called unequivocal promise, not using information to uncover user's indentities. It says simply wants to find out how much youtube business is predicate on people watching copyright material. So is there real risk to privacy?
In fact it's much harder than it might see to truly anonymous this quantity of data. It's not just a matter of taking off the usernames, or even replacing the ip addresses with random looking numbers. If you got records of individuals viewing tens of hundreds of, some cases thousands of different youtube vidoes, it actuall can be quite easy to link those together and then to link back to given individual.
Google says it's disappointed that the court granted what causes viacom overreaching demand for viewing history. It is pressing to alter the anonymous information before it hands over. But the searching engine company comes for criticism itself for the electronic privacy campaigners for keeping using data for commercial purposes. This high stakes * between old and new media giants threw a light on right-reaching issues of privacy and anonymity on the internet.