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Federal Judge Demands Video-Sharing Service Disclose Who Watches Which Video Clips And When

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[l8c6]

I remember when the selling point fpr cable was "less" advertising...

Posted by IOWEIGN

Yeah, just like Wal-Mart demanding we all buy "american" a few years back. Private profit driven global capitalists cannot be expected to advocate for the defense, safety and posterity of the people of this nation. To do so often is not in the best interest of private business growth, private profits and private shareholders. In private business land, democracy is dead and oligarchs rule. He who owns the most gold rules. Monopoly game over.

[samthetvcat]

---"Geeez.. one would think that Viacom (and others) would be GLAD someone watched parts of some of their ''shows'' somewhere."---
Posted by Lucy-in-TX

LOL . . . seriously, I thought in today''s age since everybody tivo''s out commercials it was all about product placement anyway.

Anyway, what do other people watch on Youtube? I mostly watch homemade pet videos and some of those homemade political videos like the ones that make fun of Bush, or like Will.I.am''s stuff for Barack. It''s so easy these days to set the tivo at the start of the series for all your favorite shows, how often is it that there''s a need to turn to YouTube? Every once in a while, but not that often . . .

[ioweign]

Why report those who WATCH pirated videos?
Why not prosecute those who UPLOAD them?

Posted by Inventagod2 at 11:00 AM : Jul 04, 2008

The air ways are controlled and regulated by the FCC for "our" benefit and granted to "users".

Again, why do we need cable?

I remember when the selling point fpr cable was "less" advertising...

[vsteele7]

I may be mistaken, but I believe this is an issue related more to protecting intellectual property than it is one of an individual''s privacy. I was explicit when I told members of our family that they could use YouTube, but they could not upload videos. Many recording artists are uploaded, yet these same artists have their own official home pages. YouTube is like manuevering through a swamp. Something wrong appears to be lurking there.

[pollroller1]

Most of the so called news is really brain washing by the big corps. Oh they will throw in a few human interest stories once in a while to keep the ratings up. The ads cost millions of dollars and they don''t want people watching stuff for free. This cuts into the bottom line. If people can watch YouTube without having to watch all of the ads, they won''t watch all of the commercials on TV.

[lucy-in-tx]

Geeez.. one would think that Viacom (and others) would be GLAD someone watched parts of some of their ''shows'' somewhere.
***I do not own a television and have not owned one for almost 20 years. So I really should not comment, but I do not like the thought of ''giving up'' someone who does post something they think is funny from a television show to an online site like YouTube and besides... we Americans seem to lose more of OUR Rights day by day and this would just be one more.
Besides... who has the person who posted a funny ''bit'' from a television show harmed? No one. Why should this even be considered coming close to a ''copyright infringement'' when television broadcast is damned near considered Public Domain. PLUS... they splash their commercials ALL over the internet that I pay dearly for and see more commercials nowadays than I read of news articles.
MY vote? NO advertising whatsoever if one pays nearly 70 dollars a month for internet service. How about THAT, eh?

[l8c6]

Viacom is satan.

[l8c6]

People need to unplug from everything with the best effort and starve the global corporate hydra. Viacom should lose it''s right to exist. The people to take the western world back from special interest oligarchs empowered via corporate charters.

[l8c6]

Our government which works for large private capitalist is using the internet to invade our privacy. Big corporations feel entitled to come into peoples homes through a taxpayer developed wire known as the internet to spy on us. These fascist *** feel it is their right. It''s not. What did these pigs used to do? They used to run surveys where people had a choice to participate and discuss what programs they watch. We now are wiretapped. This country is going down hill really fast.

[inventagod2]

Why report those who WATCH pirated videos?
Why not prosecute those who UPLOAD them?

[brianbwb-2009]

Sponge Bob? Colbert? Stewart?

Who watches that stuff, we can get that on regular TV, we watch you tube for what we can''t get on TV.

This is just more of the same scheme to turn the issue of copyright protection into a license for spying on people.

Here is a tip, every time you learn f a big company suing people for copyright infringement, boycott them until they are forced out of business. It wouldn''t be so bad if they actually paid the content creators, but we all know they don''t.

[brianbwb-2009]

Sponge Bob? Colbert? Stewart?

Who watches that stuff, we can get that on regular TV, we watch you tube for what we can''t get on TV.

This is just more of the same scheme to turn the issue of copyright protection into a license for spying on people.

Here is a tip, every time you learn f a big company suing people for copyright infringement, boycott them until they are forced out of business. It wouldn''t be so bad if they actually paid the content creators, but we all know they don''t.

[rocketjl]

Believe the judge just heard Viacom say "Trust Me". Too many nuts lack the ability or desire to employ caution in their far reaching actions. Why do those folks need all that data, if all they want is a count on how many people watch their videos???? Dear Judge - only a fool would think that Viacom does not have a hidden agenda.