marius schebella on Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:32:11 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom


Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The unasked question was: why is youtube/google keeping all the viewing logs? 

that's what they make money from, analyzing and selling user behavior
to advertisement companies. they are supposedly keeping the data in
anonymized form.

according to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9983631-36.html, viacom
wants to prove that youtube's success was/is based on intentional
copyright infringement. this decision is in contradiction to the 'safe
harbour' rule.

marius.






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