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How Viacom Ambushed YouTube and You - Updated
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| I found some evidence Google tried hard to protect user confidentiality, in
| some letters to the judge in the court docket of Viacom v. YouTube. After the
| Order [PDF; text here] issued, Google didn't give up, but is continuing even
| now by asking the court in a letter to reconsider the decision and let them
| redact personally identifiable data. They fought hard against Viacom's motion
| to compel [PDF]. And the evidence indicates to me that what happened was a
| kind of SCO-like maneuver on Viacom's part.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080704201419392
Google ought to have just flushed those logs regularly.
Viacom might be acting at the behest of Microsoft (see below).
Related:
Microsoft Befriends Google's Foes
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| After a government- and monopoly-inspired period in which Microsoft had
| to pretend to be a gentle force for global good, the company is being
| forced to return to its ruthless roots. Ironically, it is doing this
| in part by decrying the unfair practices of a competitor and
| shamelessly sucking up to the Establishment.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/microsoft-google-blodget-tech-cx_hb_0306blodget.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/3bewws
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| To that point, Soapbox was littered with pirated videos. This put
| Microsoft in a pickle. The software giant was agreeing to distribute
| content for entertainment companies whose copyright was commonly
| violated at its video-sharing site.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9725064-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Viacom out of touch with Web 2.0
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| Listening to the anti-Google and YouTube rhetoric spewing out of the mouth of
| Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman one has to wonder why he bothered to show up to
| the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14944/1023/
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
Legal Titans Glare At Each Other Across Google-Viacom Battlefield
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| The Viacom versus Google case is going to be an interesting showdown.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/each_side_digs_.html
Viacom: 'Daily Show' clips just the beginning
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| In the meantime, there's still the matter of that $1 billion lawsuit. Viacom
| earlier this year sued Google over the misappropriation of copyrighted
| content on YouTube.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9799914-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Google says Viacom's suit 'threatens' Net
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| Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube "threatens
| the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information"
| over the Web, YouTube parent Google said in a legal response to the suit.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9952165-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
YouTube law fight 'threatens net'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7420955.stm
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