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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-njnslqcl_w http://digg.com/world_news/viacom_vs_you please digg to help support this video the judge" judge louis l stanton daniel patrick moynihan courthouse united states courthouse 500 pearl st., room 2250 new york, ny10007 phones (212) 805-0252 faxes (212) 805-0389 online peion: http://www.peiononline.com/privacy9/peion.html please check this video out as well. i will be doing a follow up video soon for more clarification on this ject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmygrdiw5k viacom vs you. google must divulge the viewing hats of every user who has ever watched any video on youtube, a us court has ruled. the ruling s as part of google's legal battle with viacom over allegations of copyright infringet. digital rights group the electronic frontier foundation (eff) called the ruling a "set-back to privacy rights". the viewing log, which will be handed to viacom, contains the log-in id of users, the computer ip address (online identifier) and video clip details. while the legal battle between the two firms is being contested in the us, it is thought the ruling will apply to youtube users and their viewing hats everywhere. viacom, which owns mtv and paramount pictures, has alleged that youtube is guilty of mive copyright infringet. the uk's premier league ociation is also seeking cl action status with viacom on the issue, alleging youtube, which was bought by google in 2006, has been used to watch football highlights. legal action when it initiated legal action in march 2007 viacom said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes on the website, which had been viewed more than 1.5 llion times. following the launch of its llion-dollar lawsuit, youtube introduced filtering tools in an effort to prevent copyright materials from appearing on the site. the us court declined viacom's request that google be forced to hand over the source code of youtube, saying it was a "trade secret" that should not be disclosed. but it said privacy concerns expressed by google about handing over the log were "speculative". google's senior litigation counsel catherine lacavera said in a statet: "we are disappointed the court granted viacom's over-reaching demand for viewing history. "we will ask viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymise the logs before producing them under the court's order." the ruling will see the viewing hats of millions of youtube users given to viacom, totalling more than 12 terabytes of data. viacom said it the data to "compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing video with that of non-infringing videos." youtube and google had "compelled" it to go to court, viacom said, "by continuing to defend their illegal and irresponsible conduct and profiting from copyright infringet, when they could be impleting the safe and legal user generated content experience they promise". it said it would not be asking for any "personally identifiable information" of any user. "any information that we or our outside advisors obtain will be used exclusively for the purpose of proving our case against you tube and google (and) will be handled ject to a court protective order and in a highly confidential manner." 'erroneous ruling' leading privacy expert simon davies told bbc news that the privacy of millions of youtube users was threatened. he said: "the chickens have home to roost for google. "their arrogance and refusal to listen to friendly advice has resulted in the privacy of tens of millions being placed under threat." mr davies said privacy campaigners had warned google for years that ip addresses were personally identifiable information. google pledged last year to anonymise ip addresses for search information but it has said nothing about youtube data. mr davies said: "governts and organisations are realising that companies like google have a warehouse full of data. and while that data is stored it is under threat of being used and putting privacy in danger." the eff said: "the court's erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow viacom to see what you are watching on youtube. "we urge viacom to back off this overbroad request and google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users." the body said the ruling was also potentially unlawful because the log data did contain personally identifiable data. the court also ruled that google disclose to viacom the details of all videos that have been removed from the site for any reason.

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added: july 5, 2008

the new issue of more magazine in the u.k. have done a cute lil' item in their new issue comparing perez to take that tie gary barlow.

we wish!!!!!!!

google has released a new program that gives users 100mb of web space to make simple html pages in.

so yesterday you saw our iphone 2.0 wishlist, packed with things we'd love to see. but the new iphone has really had the intertubes throbng with rumors, as people desperate to get their hands on the new tech dig up info. or at least, desperately look for info in the strangest places, and invent wishful stories. check out the 10 rumors we think are most interesting. and remember, though you may want to believe, not all of this is going to be accurate.

?iphone 2 to be 22% thinner. thinness-wise it may not be cake-cutting macbook air slim, but the iphone's already fairly slender. you want more thinness, and more capality?
verdict: maybe, but only if you leave some good stuff out.

?better battery, more ram. who wouldn't want these features in a portable media player? it'd have to be a balance against the 22% thinner rumor. but technology does advance quickly...
verdict: a definite possility, at least on the ram front.

?gps function on board. more accurate than cell-tower positioning, and rumors based on fcc info even say broadcom is chip-provider. then again, wouldn't on-board gps require apple to develop turn-by-turn navigation software?
verdict: could be true. location-based services ftw.

?squarer shape. icons hidden in the iphone sdk hint at a squarer shape versus the shiny curved corners of the first version. true, or are the icons just placeholders?
verdict: who knows, but why mess with a winning design?

?front-facing camera, mole tv. a source in swisscom, switzerland's iphone supplier suggested these two. many a 3g phone can do video-calling, and mole tv seems like progression from the slightly unexpected youtube app.
verdict: camera and video calling is reasonably likely, uming 3g technology. mole tv? no way.

?us low-end iphone to cost $200. kevin rose set the rumor mill spinning when he suggested that the iphone 2 would launch at half the 8gb iphone price, and $100 less than the 8gb ipod touch.
verdict: sounds nice, but kevin's predictions have been off-target before...

?spain to get ?100 iphone 2, uk to get £100 version. local reports in spain suggested this price for people signing up to a 24-36 month contract and the times suggested similar deals in the uk.
verdict: our contacts say not this cheap in spain, but it's not like we've seen signed contracts or anything.

?iphone to ship first week of july. an insider with the uk's o2 apparently let slip to t3 that they'll be "very busy" in the first week july. and similarly on june 9th. 2+2=4.
verdict: a four-week news-to-launch timescale is reasonable, but disagrees with what we've learned from our sources.

?quanta using fedex to move huge numbers of iphones. forbes.com staked out apple contract manufacturer quanta, and saw frantic activity. could be iphone 2s, could be someone else's electronics: the boxes are just plain brown.
verdict: at this point in the timeline, anything's possible.

?iphone 2 games to cost upwards of $27. the ceo of spanish game developers lemonquest says that a new generation of iphone games are coming, and that they'll be sold in itunes for the equivalent of around $27.
verdict: understandable, given the capalities the new iphone would have and the already-revealed game-friendly sdk. however, developers are free to set their own prices on games, so don't expect every game to cost $27. when's the last time you saw a mole cellphone game cost that much?

so, there you have it. which'll prove accurate? the truth is out there... and we'll find out on monday.

more and more of our feeds have embedded video, so it was a no-brainer to offer greater video support. we've cleared over 30 different video sites to stream video through bloglines. it's a broad list including blip.tv, break.com, brightcove, cnet, cnn, collegehumor.com, dailymotion.com, metacafe, myspace, revver, videoegg, and oh yeah, youtube, among others.

here's an example where i'm about to watch jake and amir of college humor. the video is embedded in the silicon alley insider feed inside using the vimeo player.

have fun!

- eric engleman and the bloglines team

-- irvine, calif.-based youmail said today it is launching its free public beta of its visual voicemail for smartphones. the term became popular after the launch of the iphone, but youmail says the service allows users to listen to voicemail messages, forward messages on to other people, or reply via sms from the phone's wap browser, and without having to dial into their voicemail service. to use, you must first have to create an account online, and then login on your phone at http://youmail.com. in addition to the basic features, the service also lets you view the caller's po, name, city and state. the service works on smartphones, including the blackberry, the palm (nsdq: palm) treo, the iphone, and nokia (nyse: nok) devices.

-- seattle-based zumo said it released its latest version for windows mole today that provides a few new feature. one of them is called a tile wizard, which allows users create their own zumo mole widgets. users can choose the tile's look, stream data from a rss feed and turn personal blogs and favorite web content into a tile. another feature is the tile gallery, which let's users select and upload widgets directly from their mole handset. one of its newest tiles ia the game called "willy the hilllly," which was developed by tribal ddb for mountain dew.

-- zed, a mole entertaint company, said today that u.s. consumers have downloaded more than 76 million pieces of content from them through the brew platform since 2001. zed, formerly 9 squared in the u.s., also announced that it reached several milestones last year, including the launch of three brew applications; u.s. cellular's tone room, univision tonos and voicemail max and has grown its realtone jukebox offering.

-- rocawear, the apparel company created by rapper jay-z, is launching a mole advertising campaign targeting boost mole's 4.4 million users this month, reports brandweek. amobee media systems is handling mole component for the brand's "be heard, be seen, be felt" campaign. boost customers will be offered a special promotional code that can be redeemed at rocawear.com for a 10 percent discount. 

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tanla, an indian provider of mole services, said it acquired an 85 percent stake in opent, a finland-based mole payt software company for $15.8 million in cash, reports idg via networkworld. the remaining 15 percent of the company, currently held by opent's managet, will be purchased in two stages over the next two years. tanla currently uses opent's products and services in the u.k., ireland, dubai, and singapore, and expects the acquisition to give the company access to opent's relationships with device makers and mole operators. in addition, by integrating opent's technology into its own services platform, the company will be able to expand past mole entertaint, mole marketing and advertising and interactive tv into the mole payts market. release.

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