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You are viewing the most recent 4 entries July 15th, 2008: Pink or green? For some reason, green dragon egg has less clicky than pink dragon egg. Having mentioned this, will it undo the effect? Give dragon eggs clicky. Current Mood:  chipperJuly 13th, 2008: Dragon eggs!   Oh dear. dragovianknight has corrupted me. ;-)Current Mood: amusedJuly 4th, 2008: No, not just sour grapes I have a Youtube account: every video uploaded to it is my own copyrighted material. I use Youtube to watch vids: primarily, I use it to watch Johnny Cash sing. (Occasionally, Willie Nelson.) As of last Tuesday, Viacom gets to know exactly what my viewing patterns are. And yours. And everyone's. "To build its case, Viacom asked for a list of all the login IDs belonging to YouTube's users, along with the company's log of which videos they watched, when, and from which IP (Internet Protocol) address. With that logging database, it hopes to show that its copyright content is of more interest to YouTube's users than video created by the users themselves." - link So an American judge got to make an order that handed over identifying data about people living outside the US to an American corporation which is minded to really, really, annoy the people who used to be its customer base. Well, if you're still on Livejournal, you should be used to that. To quote someone else: "Now every part of the world is subject to US law. Except Guantanamo Bay." "That data includes every YouTube username, the associated IP address and the videos that user has watched on YouTube. Google will also be required to hand over copies of every video removed from Youtube for any reason (DMCA notices or user-initiated deletions). Stanton dismissed Google’s argument that the order will violate user privacy, saying such privacy concerns are merely 'speculative.'" - link Simon Davies does a big I Told You So: "Governments and organisations are realising that companies like Google have a warehouse full of data. And while that data is stored it is under threat of being used and putting privacy in danger." link I was recommended to the Tor Project to improve your privacy online. I was interested to see if Organisation for Transformative Works had anything to say about this, but they don't. Current Mood: awakeJanuary 16th, 2008: Spooky, ooo... Play once and return here ( What happens ) Current Mood: amused |