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06:26 pm: Sometimes the Internet is good to me
( MUNCLE songvid to Leonard Cohen's 'Everybody Knows' )

I'm still looking for my M*A*S*H music videos, which the Internet ought to give to me if longing were all...

Tags: leonard cohen, man from uncle, omg hearts, youtube videos

01:44 pm: 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.

Tags: bloody bloody bloody, cool things people do with software, evil american politics, fannishness, youtube videos

02:02 pm: Can I give you a hand?
( Pig finds hand )

Tags: disembodied hands, pink fluffy pigs, weird stuff, youtube videos

05:17 pm: I officially hate YouTube
I have figured out why my browser suddenly keeps wanting to run an ActiveX control and crash all of the time. It's because people keep posting YouTube screens all over the place, and my browser can't stand them. I don't blame it: nor can I.

If you're posting a YouTube screen on your journal, would it kill you to put it behind an lj-cut?

If you're posting a YouTube screen on your blog, would it kill you to put it under the fold?

Either way, would it kill you to say "Here's a YouTube thing you might like to view?" as fair warning so I know not to click on that link?

If the answer to any of the last three questions is "Yes", I apologise for asking, because I don't want you killed, obviously. It's annoying when my browser crashes, but I can and do resurrect it.

Tags: online situations, rants, youtube videos