Viacom wins in court case against Youtube, Every single video watched by every single IP on Youtube... Options

[Rhiannon]

I'm lost.

[Raijinili]

Reasons why his idea is bad.

[Dr Strum]

I don't understand what you're saying. Or how it makes my idea bad.

[Raijinili]

People can find your IP and call you.

[Dr Strum]

IPs are only supposed to be given out on a need-to-know basis. A random person wouldn't (ideally) have your IP - but your point is way moot either way, as people can look up your phone number in the phone book, or online.

[Raijinili]

So can you call me right now, since I accessed your board and thus gave you my IP?

[Leyviur]

IPs are only supposed to be given out on a need-to-know basis. A random person wouldn't (ideally) have your IP - but your point is way moot either way, as people can look up your phone number in the phone book, or online.

You do know that peoples' phone numbers can't be printed without their permission. My home number in the US is not in the phone book.

[Dr Strum]

You do know that peoples' phone numbers can't be printed without their permission. My home number in the US is not in the phone book.

Yes, but this is misleading - it's not that you have to give them permission to do so, you can merely take it away. By default they'll print it. But at any time you can tell them not to.

So can you call me right now, since I accessed your board and thus gave you my IP?

If my system were in place, I'd be able to, but I wouldn't. Part of the idea is that it would make you less stupid about what you do online - you CAN be found.

[jcdietz03]

You do know that peoples' phone numbers can't be printed without their permission. My home number in the US is not in the phone book.

Not true. It's an opt-out system. They can print your number without your permission. Also, an unlisted number costs extra, at least in some areas.

I don't have a land line though, and it's currently illegal to publish a directory of cell phone customers.

I think the Youtube data Viacom will receive will include "anonymized usernames" - i.e., "User 1", "User 2", "User 3" instead of the real usernames. Your IP won't be included. Viacom wants to prove that commercial content is more popular than user generated content.

I wonder how they will treat derivative works like anime music videos. Do you think Viacom will count it in their figures?

12TB of data is a lot...
According to the judge: "It can fit on four hard drives"
In what universe can 12TB of data fit on four hard drives. It would take a minimum of 8 with the new Seagate 1.5TB drives coming out next month. With current drives it would take 12.

Unless the judge is counting some combination NAS box with four drives in it as a "hard drive" - which is misleading and likely uninformed.

[Raijinili]

Your IP won't be included.

Only if Google's request that they be allowed to erase that data gets through.

I wonder how they will treat derivative works like anime music videos. Do you think Viacom will count it in their figures?

Think about what you just said.