I’m mainly posting this because frankly I have not been paying any attention to this particular subject. I should care a little more but hey.

For me except for the convenience of showing y’all a news clip or a “U not the daddy” clip and being able to embed the clip easily I don’t have much use for You Tube anymore as far as my posting of clips to the site because many of the times I was kicked off the site for removal of “copyright” material it had nothing to do with the actual clip it was how I tag the clip and how I titled it. It was all based on the fact that I was an evil right leaning dude.

When I posted the Barack, The Magic Negro clip, my clip was removed because it was being played on every fucken newscast around the country. Countless copycat clips remained on You Tube after the fact.
I had a number of leftists fucks monitoring every damm clip I put on the site and would almost immediately get some note from You Tube, I said fuck it.

Let’s get real if You Tube was able to prevent the upload of every single piece of copyrighted material from its site would anyone go to You Tube?
I know I don’t want to watch a bunch of idiots playing with their dogs and cats, or some too close mug shot of some moron in his mothers basement giving us his insight on the current political scene, or even worse some rednecks mattress surfing.

Although Viacom certainly may not agree but millions more folks like myself have viewed material that I would otherwise have not seen because someone took the time to upload and share what they viewed.
I can see both sides of this issue but as this clip below points out if Viacom pisses off the rabblerousing 20-something computer geeks and these young folks do decide to mobilize and boycott Viacom they will indeed feel the pinch.

If there is anybody out there who happens to read this who knows more about this particular issues please enlighten me.

Google scored a legal victory in keeping its search source code secret from Viacom, but YouTube users were not so fortunate with their privacy.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the search giant doesn’t have to turn over the code to Viacom, which filed a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in 2007.

In granting Google’s motion for a protective order, U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton in Manhattan agreed with Google’s characterization of the source code as a trade secret that can’t be disclosed without risking the loss of business.

“YouTube and Google should not be made to place this vital asset in hazard merely to allay speculation,” the judge said. “A plausible showing that YouTube and Google’s denials are false, and that the search function can and has been used to discriminate in favor of infringing content, should be required before disclosure of so valuable and vulnerable an asset is compelled.”

The judge also denied Viacom’s motion for Google to produce source code for its Video Identification Tool, which helps copyright notify Google of copyright infringement.

However, the judge granted a Viacom motion that records of every video watched by YouTube users, including their login names and IP addresses, be turned over to the entertainment giant.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the ruling a threat to YouTube users’ privacy.

“The court’s order grants Viacom’s request and erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users,” the EFF said in a statement.

At stake in the legal battle is a key part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the 1998 law that shields Web site owners from copyright infringement involving material published by users. The “safe harbor” provision in the law can protect against infringement claims as long as copyrighted material is removed upon notification.

After the suit, YouTube launched an antipiracy tool that checks uploaded videos against the original content in an effort to flag piracy.

Earlier - Viacom’s YouTube lawsuit a threat to internet, Google says

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