Google ordered to hand over personal details of millions of YouTube users to Viacom

[K1u]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...Tube-video.html

Under the ruling, Google, which bought YouTube for $1.65 billion (£820 million) in 2006, must hand over to Viacom its viewing log - which includes users' log-in information and their IP address, the code that identifies their computer.

[Snubs]

Ugh, Viacom... so creepy. I really hope this ruling doesn't go through. That's milliions of people's information.

[shido]

i really dont see why they should get EVERYONES credentials, since seeing they are up to sue Google and Youtube. If they get everyone thats uploading illegal videos what are they going to do next??sue all the people?? :lol:

Why dont they just sue Youtube, Google because youtube is the one that should have had a restriction for video content uploading.

Besides that not everybody uploads videos that are illegal so i dont see why thy need everyones details.

The way i see it Viacom shouldnt even win the case, because if you think about it why didnt they bring this up the time youtube started??I feel viacom waited for Youtube to grow into what it is today before they made their move....Anyhoo i dont use the service so i dont care who gets sued haha

[SomeoneE1se]

Psh I don't use youtube for my piracy needs I just use tbp and I don't see them handing out any information anytime soon. And I can't remember the last time I used a torrent for something non-free hulu.com has all the shows I like