Google ordered to hand over Youtube User Information

burnitup · Jul 8, 2008

tofuman said: ↑

ya that true and slowly our freedom is going bye bye
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Yeah. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a world wide riot over Viacom's bull crap.

Patsy Stone · Jul 9, 2008

TheMuffinMan said: ↑

No one stated they were giving account information, because frankly they don't need to give something so arbitrary as your account information. Google is handing over the IP addresses of users, an IP address is your internet footprint, your internet signature designated by your ISP, a mark tied to your very computer, an IP address can be tracked to your very house address.

Having someone's IP address is much more dangerous then someone's account information. My account on Youtube could easily be completely different in name and password then that of, say, KH-Vids or my Email. But your IP address, your IP address is the very breadcrumb trail your computer leaves behind on every single website you visit, your IP address follows you everywhere, and with it someone can know of your presence on every website you visit, and use it as a port directly into your computer if they so wish.

Now I'm not stating the Viacom are super-hackers and they're going to hijack the computer of every IP address they receive, I'm simply saying that because of the very nature of how Google works, they can keep track of everything you do when you use their services. Google as of now is not necessarily a dangerous entity, but the very information Google compiles on everyone that uses it is very dangerous.
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But they aren't giving IP adresses =_= All Google is giving is the records of what was accessed by how many accounts. It doesn't look at who accessed what, when and from where. All Viacom want to investigate is how popular specific videos are, and then compare it to how illegal they are.

Again I say, if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide (and if anyone mentions the slippery slope argument, they are going to end up on the slippery slope to the grave >: )

LightManifest · Jul 24, 2008

This may sound unintelligent, but why do they want our IP address? For videos that are illegal, can't Youtube remove them? As for, "private videos," they're not only asking to see them, but alot of things, right? I'm not saying they will get that information in the end, though, but I was just wondering why.

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