Will you be watching YouTube as much now?
@owlwings (43897)
Cambridge, England
July 4, 2008 9:22am CST
Now that Google is to be forced to make user information available to Viacom, will you be watching YouTube as much as before?
It seems likely that any (and all) user information and activity can be used in support of Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/tc_nm/google_viacom_dc_1
This also highlights, of course, the fact that all of our activity on the Internet may be subject to scrutiny. Nothing is private or can be deemed to be secret. If the FBI decided that you were worthy of investigation for something you wrote on MyLot in an unguarded moment, for example, they could very quickly have a record of EVERYWHERE you have been on the Internet (including private emails)!
How worried are you about this?
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
4 Jul 08
Truth be known....they are already watching and following us...we just don't know it yet! I don't do UTube so not concerned there, but have noticed my disucssions show up on GOggle pages and I hadn't a clue they'd be there! That old "ISP" number attached to your PC - how many numerals is that? "666" or combination thereof? There is so much out there that the govt knows about us. Thing is... if they know so much and follow and watch so much and even if they don't , they can if they want to...why is it so hard to solve crimes and what people do to "cover themselves" that involve PC or PC communications between ...?... and the law can't find anything on them.... bet they can if they wanted to badly enough!
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@nannacroc (4049)
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4 Jul 08
Sadly I have got to the stage where I feel there is no point in worrying about who is or isn't spying on us. If we go shopping we're watched, if we go to the cinema we're watched. Everyone seems to be watching everything we do unless we are criminals, in which case you can literally get away with murder.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
12 Jul 08
Absolutely not worried at all. I have no idea what "Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit is about, I don't do YouTube and I'm sure the FBI could not possibly be interested in the private emails or myLot postings of a middle aged Australian lady who lives a pretty reclusive life in a small village in Outback NSW. I have nothing to hide and I would hold myself open to scrutiny if the occasion arose. However I think the chance of this is remote.
@theonow (126)
• United States
6 Jul 08
It is unconstitutional invading my Right of Privacy, but I can only imagine the pages of names if Viacom gets it. It'll be longer than the Starr Report and that was just about a guy trying to get some action on the side.
@wallstreet (341)
• United States
13 Jul 08
So if I start a discussion on My Lot ... 'We should Kill the Presidant'.. I can expext some scanning software to pick it up, and pass it on to the local FBI, and they would visit me at 3 am.... ohhh I better be careful with what I type...
Oh and to the scanning software .. or little guy in the corner that has no life and is tasked with reading each and ever post everywhere... It was just a hypothetical question.....
@CornishAustin (147)
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4 Jul 08
I'm not really that worried, simply because I use Youtube just to watch videos and not upload anything. It's those who upload copyrighted content that the authorities are seeking, and not the people who simply watch the videos online. After all, what could they do us with, just simply watching videos? I can't see how that could be against the law.
