http://www.rte.ie/business/2008/0704/google.html
this is a bad day for your privacy.
I think google should give viacom all the information on 1.4mb floppy disks.
yes.
Things like this make me sad for the Internet's future. Viacom can go shove something hard and non-organic up their ass.
poor google
Quote from: AirPumpClock;1354347Viacom can go shove something hard and non-organic up their ass.
a mobile-home?
It's funny how this is happening after google went and bought YouTube.
Quote from: TremcladClock;1354380It's funny how this is happening after google went and bought YouTube.
why would google have to give info about youtube to viacom if it doesn't own youtube
Quote from: Maddox;1354388why would google have to give info about youtube to viacom if it doesn't own youtube
If YouTube were still a standalone organization, the original owners would have to take the heat once the hammer fell, but because google is now their owner, they're responsible.
:dunce:
Quote from: TremcladClock;1354389If YouTube were still a standalone organization, the original owners would have to take the heat once the hammer fell, but because google is now their owner, they're responsible.
:dunce:
well I was getting at your italic text. I don't get why it's funny that it happened
after Google took it over. Because Google is like gigantic and stuff?
Quote from: Maddox;1354390well I was getting at your italic text. I don't get why it's funny that it happened after Google took it over. Because Google is like gigantic and stuff?
Nevermind, just play with your colouring books and building blocks.
Quote from: TremcladClock;1354393Nevermind, just play with your colouring books and building blocks.
I guess I'll shut up when the grown-ups talk, too, huh.
:(
So now the courts need to know what movies we choose to watch in the privacy of our homes.
The government is getting more and more paranoid every day.
This is absolutely criminal as far as I'm concerned. What Americans view in the privacy of their own homes is their business. Things like IP addresses, login names, and other information is more than ample information to find out things that the internet keeps anonymous. This also means Viacom can use this information to try and sell your information to private companies. This is a sad sick case of consumerism not capitalism. In a true capitalist society it is the consumer that controls the market. In today's society it is the conglomerates that control everything.
Well maybe if they put better shows on tv we wouldn't have to use youtube to find the gems.
The government is going to find out I've been watching uploaded episodes of anime on youtube and then I'll be kicked out of the Army for being a faggot. :(
Quote from: RomanCollarClock;1354520The government is going to find out I've been watching uploaded episodes of anime on youtube and then I'll be kicked out of the Army for being a faggot. :(
Too late honey I sent em our special video.
Google needs to keep it's servers in it's own microcountry.
This suck a whole, whole lot.
However, YouTube's Web 2.0 automation already does reveal things. On my account, the "related videos" that appear next to some videos that I've made and uploaded are ones that I've just viewed and have nothing to do with the video.
Viacom =/= the government
However, its still pretty bad. I'm guessing this a combination between recent gains by Google and Viacom wanting to get some of it.
Thats total Bull.
I hate Television companies because of shit like this.
Quote from: Gomez Addams;1354527Too late honey I sent em our special video.
:army: :cheeef: :fire: :cowboy: :cop:
Quote from: RomanCollarClock;1354520The government is going to find out I've been watching uploaded episodes of anime on youtube and then I'll be kicked out of the Army for being a faggot. :(
Since when is Viacom the government?
Fuck all this making money off of recorded information shit. Bootlegging ought to be legal as long as you're not charging for it, file sharing ought to be legal, a lot of things ought to be legal. Fuck.
Quote from: Flux;1354784Since when is Viacom the government?
If a corporation can get the information...
Quote from: balutbalutbalutbalut;1354889Fuck all this making money off of recorded information shit. Bootlegging ought to be legal as long as you're not charging for it, file sharing ought to be legal, a lot of things ought to be legal. Fuck.
All very true. File sharing is no more illegal than burning a cd. Which is actually illegal.
Isn't anything on the interenet inmediatly public domain? Of course not when there is money on charge but is not like the United States can take control of anything published, of course made in USA is another deal...
Quote from: joliet_jane;1354560This suck a whole, whole lot.
However, YouTube's Web 2.0 automation already does reveal things. On my account, the "related videos" that appear next to some videos that I've made and uploaded are ones that I've just viewed and have nothing to do with the video.
Well, the related videos are based on the most common viewing trends going from and to that video, so it makes sense for you, the majority of the viewership of a video you updated two seconds ago, to be the sole source of videos for the algorithm to link to your video.
This is proof that it's not so much the government we have to worry about as it is the corporations.
Quote from: Raymond Dufayel;1355119Isn't anything on the interenet inmediatly public domain? Of course not when there is money on charge but is not like the United States can take control of anything published, of course made in USA is another deal...
No its not public. Its "owned" by the people who own the server its hosted on. Theres more but its complicated.
Viacom's CEO and President need to be lit on fire.
Quote from: RomanCollarClock;1355002If a corporation can get the information...
...the government also can? Yeah, that's not new. The government wouldn't even have to win a legal battle, they could probably get away with just taking it if they want it. I thought this was common knowledge.
Quote from: ORLY;1361153This is proof that it's not so much the government we have to worry about as it is the corporations.
You would think you would have learned that after the MPAA.
Quote from: ZeitmiserZeitmesser;1361353You would think you would have learned that after the MPAA.
Make that
more proof. :)
Quote from: AbsintheClock;1354439This is absolutely criminal as far as I'm concerned. What Americans view in the privacy of their own homes is their business. Things like IP addresses, login names, and other information is more than ample information to find out things that the internet keeps anonymous. This also means Viacom can use this information to try and sell your information to private companies. This is a sad sick case of consumerism not capitalism. In a true capitalist society it is the consumer that controls the market. In today's society it is the conglomerates that control everything.
Exactly. As I was telling my dad a couple of weeks ago, the electronic media industry is quickly growing into a militaristic juggernaut that monitors and controls people's everyday lives. (My dad, of course, is in denial about the whole thing.)
But fortunately, there's hope, albeit a very small shard of hope. The Free Software Foundation has been fighting since 1985 to keep the media industry from using computers to become "Big Brother," as George Orwell foretold in
1984.
Quote from: AirPumpClock;1354347Viacom can go shove something hard and non-organic up their ass.
Preferably sandpaper.
Quote from: Spanish;1362795Preferably sandpaper.
No, sandpaper is too flexible by itself. Wrap it around a lamppost and glue some rusty nails to it and we'll talk.
Quote from: SailorClock;1363343No, sandpaper is too flexible by itself. Wrap it around a lamppost and glue some rusty nails to it and we'll talk.
Cheese grater, rather.
I'm sure if I thought a little longer I could recall having seen a video online of someone actually shoving a cheese grater up their ass.