Comments on: Viacom Gets to Know Your Entire YouTube Viewing History http://blogsofwar.com/2008/07/03/viacom-gets-to-know-your-entire-youtube-viewing-history/ National security, intelligence, global conflict, and crisis monitoring since 2002 Sun, 13 May 2012 17:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: tas http://blogsofwar.com/2008/07/03/viacom-gets-to-know-your-entire-youtube-viewing-history/comment-page-1/#comment-199900 tas Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:17:13 +0000 http://www.blogsofwar.com/2008/07/03/viacom-gets-to-know-your-entire-youtube-viewing-history/#comment-199900 <i>The court’s protective order stipulates that data turned over to Viacom by Google must be used for the sole purpose of proving Viacom’s claim against Google that YouTube is a hotbed of pirated video content, the sources said.</i> I'm afraid I don't get it then. Why does Viacom need data for user's viewing habits to gather his information when all they have to do is collect instances of Viacom programs on Youtube and how many views each video as had? I'm not expecting you or anyone not a lawyer to answer this question, of course... But Viacom's reasoning just doesn't make sense. The court’s protective order stipulates that data turned over to Viacom by Google must be used for the sole purpose of proving Viacom’s claim against Google that YouTube is a hotbed of pirated video content, the sources said.

I’m afraid I don’t get it then. Why does Viacom need data for user’s viewing habits to gather his information when all they have to do is collect instances of Viacom programs on Youtube and how many views each video as had?

I’m not expecting you or anyone not a lawyer to answer this question, of course… But Viacom’s reasoning just doesn’t make sense.

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