Confrontation between YouTube and Viacom
by kristina leskova
YouTube is a very popular website, which is daily visited by many people. Here you can find especially videos, you can watch your favourite songs, watch some comic videos or shows. You can add here your own video and share it with other people. It is possible to add here commentary to videos, which you like or dislike. YouTube is a huge community, which connect people of every age. YouTube was created in February 2005 and after 3 years it is known by almost every person, who has connection to the internet. Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users can upload unlimited number of videos. When we talk about the popularity of this site & in January 2008 nearly 79 million users made over 3 billion video views.
Viacom is an American media conglomerate with interests in cable and satellite television networks and movie production and distribution. The main confrontation between Google and Viacom was that Viacom complained about the videos, which appeared on YouTube. Viacom thinks that videos that infringe copyright are watched more than the videos created by the users. Viacom wanted the indemnity more than one billion dollars and all the user's data (Internet Protocol, login).
The judge assigned to Google give all the user data including videos. Google has to give to Viacom the login of users, too. Google objected that this is violation of users'privacy, but the judge said that these objections were speculative.
But on Monday Viacom agreed that it is better to protect the privacy of users. The only thing what should YouTube do, is to exchange the user login and IP addresses. YouTube has now one week time to ensure this problem. But I think that it won't last for a long time.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_on_hi_te/youtube_lawsuit;_ylt=AhTb2v82YkqA125DKcWQ5JkjtBAF
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posted by Lucia Adamova
Viacom is an American media conglomerate with interests in cable and satellite television networks and movie production and distribution. The main confrontation between Google and Viacom was that Viacom complained about the videos, which appeared on YouTube. Viacom thinks that videos that infringe copyright are watched more than the videos created by the users. Viacom wanted the indemnity more than one billion dollars and all the user's data (Internet Protocol, login).
The judge assigned to Google give all the user data including videos. Google has to give to Viacom the login of users, too. Google objected that this is violation of users'privacy, but the judge said that these objections were speculative.
But on Monday Viacom agreed that it is better to protect the privacy of users. The only thing what should YouTube do, is to exchange the user login and IP addresses. YouTube has now one week time to ensure this problem. But I think that it won't last for a long time.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_on_hi_te/youtube_lawsuit;_ylt=AhTb2v82YkqA125DKcWQ5JkjtBAF
| by kristina leskova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
posted by Lucia Adamova
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