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So what does that mean? This means that any video you watch will note your IP address, and your YouTube account name if you are using it, and what video you watch.
So what? IP addresses can be reset, and I don't really need my YouTube account. For one thing, not many people know how to reset their IP addresses, yours truly included. Also, some say it's not that hard to trace the data back to a specific user.
So is YouTube safe? Right now, it's kinda hard to tell. Tthis ruling was fairly recent, so what Viacom does with the data is up in the air. But if people start getting sued for thousands of dollars, like they do for illegal downloads, then we'll know.
Any advice? Well, you can do a few things. First off, Firefox has some add-ons that can hide your IP address. Tor-Proxy.NET Toolbar (LINK) is one example of this. You can also lessen the amount of videos you watch while you are on your YouTube account (they get recorded). This doesn't mean that your YouTube account is worthless; you can still use it to watch subscriptions to non-copyrighted material.
What's your opinion on this? (Like I actually care.) Thanks for asking! Personally, this is another step towards an invasion of privacy. I'm not going to rant about the police state, but this isn't a good thing. Viacom could have just gotten reparations (Google's worth a shitload), but I think they took it a step too far.
Here's a link to a CNN article talking more about this issue:LINK
Happy July 4th everybody. =)
This was a clip from the cartoon short by "GoGo13." It was featured on Yo Gabba Gabba sometime ago. Well it was a nice little toon. Teaching kids the importance of picking up your room and also picking it up at the same time ("Pick it up" a ska phrase meaning to skank basically) So when they say "Pick it up" it means several things. I liked the to watch it on youtube. And I found it on 21deadmonkeys, turning ska into a four letter word, which was for obvious reasons.
Well the video featured a little black girl and a little skinhead boy playing in the room. When all of a sudden the girls dad opened the door and was obviously a Jamaican Rude Boy from speach and dress etc... So they go into a singing number and pick up the room, every once in a while would start skaning in a colored scene.
Unfortunately I tried to watch it on 21deadmonkeys but it wasn't available so I went to youtube. And turns out Viacom didn't allow people to watch it because of some copyright crap.
As if Viacom needs more money, you greedy bastards. I am sure that letting a few videos out every now and then won't get in the way of taking money from the dozens of other big corporations you own. I know they own Comedy Central and I know there are enough idiots to watch it and pour money into it so that is some proof that Viacom obviously owns some sort of food hold in the media.
Well I thought it was a really good video. Teaching little Rude Girls/Boys and skinheads to pick it up at a young age. But I think a little less of it considering the source of funding for the video.
So thanks Viacom for taking that simple pleasure away from me because you wanted to save a few bucks in people not watching a clip from you. Well at least they are consistant.
In a sign of the growing tension between old-line media and the new Internet behemoths, Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded yesterday that YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, remove more than 100,000 clips of its programming.
Viacom, along with other major media companies, including the News Corporation and NBC Universal, has become increasingly frustrated with YouTube as it has amassed a vast library of copyrighted clips, placed on the site by its users.
While such companies regularly ask YouTube to remove their material, Viacom's demand, which it disclosed in a statement circulated by e-mail message, was the most militant and public move of its kind so far.
As it has with the similar request from other companies, Google removed the Viacom clips from the YouTube site yesterday.
The dispute underscored the tense dance that major media companies are doing with Google, which bought YouTube for $1.65 billion last October. Google hopes to strike deals that will give it the rights to mainstream programming and also wipe away its potential liability for any violations of copyright law by YouTube so far.
Despite intense negotiations in recent months, Google has not been able to announce any such deals with media companies. YouTube is supported by advertising, but in most cases it does not share that revenue with copyright holders.