Google must register YouTube

Google, viewing habits of each user, who never saw the video on YouTube, the court in the United States – not adopted.

The decision comes as part of Google legal battle with Viacom over accusations of copyright infringement.

Digital Rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the decision “a step backwards for personal rights”.

The newspaper, which is to Viacom, the magazine contains a user ID, computer IP-address (ID on the Internet) and video clip details.

While the legal fight between the two companies is that in the U.S., we believe the decision of YouTube users and their viewing habits around the world.

Viacom owned MTV and kinokompanii Paramount Pictures, said that YouTube is guilty of massive copyright infringement.

British Prime League club is also seeking class action status with Viacom to a question, based on YouTube, which was acquired by Google in 2006, was used to football highlights.

Legal action

If a lawsuit was launched in March 2007, Viacom said it identified about 160000 unauthorized clips of its programmes on the web site, which has been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

Following the launch of its multibillion-dollar lawsuit, YouTube introduced a filtering tool in efforts to prevent copyrighted material on the site.

USA – Viacom Court rejected a request that Google would be forced to allocate source YouTube, saying it was “commercial secret” should not be disclosed.

Nevertheless, talks about Google’s privacy deliver registration “speculative”.

Google senior trial attorney Catherine Lacavera said in the statement: “We are disappointed that the court granted Viacom magnitude of excessive demand to see the full picture.

“Viacom, you must respect the confidentiality of users and allows us to write anonymous before production by court order.”

Judgments viewing habits of millions of users YouTube Viacom, with a total area of over 12 terabytes of data.

Viacom said that he wants the data to compare the attractiveness of video, alleged violation, non-video “.

YouTube and Google had been “forced” to go to court, said, Viacom “, to continue to protect their illegal and irresponsible behaviour and to benefit from copyright infringement if they can be applied to legal certainty and led to the content user experience What they promise” .

On the other hand, said there was no call “personal information” to anyone.

“All information that we or our outside consultant to receive will be used solely for the purpose of proving our case against YouTube and Google (and) managed provided protection order and justice in a very confidential”.

“Bad decision”

Leading Privacy Expert Simon Davies told BBC News, that the personal lives of millions of YouTube users is threatened.

He said: “The chickens have come home to roost for Google.

“His arrogance and refusal to hear friendly tips led to the private lives of tens of millions of people are threatened.”

Davis said a private campaign Google warned that for many years, IP-addresses are personal information.

Google, announced last year for anonymous IP-addresses in search of information, but does not say anything about the data YouTube.

Davis said: “Governments and organizations are aware that companies like Google have a complete data warehouse. And while the data is stored, used under threat and the threat of privacy.”

EFF said: “The court decision is erroneous failure right to privacy and to enable Viacom, to see what you see on YouTube.

“We call on Viacom, to reverse this too much to ask Google, to take all necessary measures to this challenge and to protect the rights of its users.”

The Agency said that the decision was also potentially illegal, as well as records containing personal identification data.

The court also ruled that Viacom Google to disclose information on all videos were removed from the site for any reason.

adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/