U.S. court ordered YouTube closed log data
Posted on July 5th, 2008 in Internet news google, youtube
- The July 4, according to foreign media reports, YouTube is responsible for hearing the case of infringing the U.S. federal court recently ordered this video-sharing site users open the log data.
International media giant Viacom and other copyright holders that they need YouTube log data to show that its copyright-protected video to watch over the number of amateur video production. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton (Louis L. Stanton) investigation finds that the plaintiff, such as Viacom YouTube can log data.
In accordance with this ruling, YouTube log data will not be published, will only provide to the plaintiff, and do not include users real name, e-mail address and other specific identifying information. Google lawyers said that the production of about 12 TB of data (equivalent to 12 million of the text) costly, time-consuming enormous, and a threat to the privacy of users. YouTube is Google's subsidiaries.
These data include every section of the video playback time, to watch the video to determine the frequency, as well as user login ID and computer IP address. Stanton this week ruled that the plaintiffs need to Viacom and other information on the grounds that legitimate, and the YouTube user privacy concerns are purely speculation of the story.
Viacom and other plaintiffs also asked Google to provide the source code (secret information technology), Stanton rejected this, saying there is no evidence that its operations are Google search operation rules to distinguish between pirated video. Google asked for the two Viacom Comedy Central comedy star乔恩斯图尔特(Jon Stewart) and Stephen Colbert (Stephen Colbert) to answer questions of the court, the court has not yet been determined.
Viacom to YouTube in its video-sharing site on the dissemination of copyright-protected programs an infringement grounds that the prosecution YouTube compensation for at least 1 billion U.S. dollars, include Comedy Central's "The Daily Show乔恩斯图尔特" Nick and children channels The cartoon "The Adventures of cotton box."
British Football Association and other organizations were also on YouTube made a similar lawsuit. YouTube infringing the plaintiff is now the case with the collection of evidence in an attempt to prove that YouTube knowingly and deliberately violated their copyright, and this may take action to prevent violations. Once you've found evidence in this regard, the plaintiffs can break through service providers to enjoy the protection of the safe harbor provisions. (Yang Lin)
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