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Viacom claims they need your personal YouTube information, purportedly to prove their claim that most YouTube views came from Viacom content. The latter claim is patently ridiculous, and so is the former.

Viacom obviously does not need your personal YouTube info to prove its purported point. They can use your personal information, however, to sue you. Viacom knows it, YouTube knows it, and people know it. Judge Louis Stanton, who ruled in favor of Viacom violating your privacy, either doesn’t know or doesn’t care. That’s why YouTube’s lawyers are asking Viacom’s lawyers that any data YouTube gives Viacom be anonymized first.

“Of course, we’ve to follow legal process. But since IP addresses and usernames aren’t necessary to determine general viewing practices, our lawyers have asked their lawyers to let us remove that information before we hand over the data they’re seeking,” states YouTube on their blog.

I doubt Viacom’s lawyers will grant that request so easily. Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman both show tiny regard for customers. They would love to make an example out of you.

Tags: Louis Stanton, Philippe Dauman, privacy, stupid, Sumner Redstone, Viacom, YouTube

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Similar to the Character Map application for Windows, CharacterPal is a Dashboard widget that helps you input foreign symbols. For instance, do you remember how to make this ? Apple logo appear on your keyboard?

? ? ? ? (!!!)

‘Course you know! It’s Option + Shift + K! But if by some incidence you forgot how todo this, CharacterPal can always help you remember. Now you won’t have any problems knowing how to make the Apple logo appear using keyboard presses.

Tags: Apple logo, CharacterPal, Keyboard, Option Shift K

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Louis Lee Stanton
United Says Courthouse
500 Pearl St., Room 2250
New York, NY 10007

Courtroom: 21C
Chambers Phone: +1 (212) 805-0252
Deputy Phone: +1 (212) 805-0123
Fax: +1 (212) 805-0389

US District Court Judge Louis L. Stanton is the guy who told YouTube to give all your personal information and viewing history to Viacom, thus allowing Viacom to invade your privacy and probably sue you. Mail, phone, or fax him a piece of your mind.

(Info via the US District Court and FindLaw.)

Tags: Louis Stanton, privacy, stupid, Viacom, YouTube

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Louis Lee Stanton
United Says Courthouse
500 Pearl St., Room 2250
New York, NY 10007

Courtroom: 21C
Chambers Phone: +1 (212) 805-0252
Deputy Phone: +1 (212) 805-0123
Fax: +1 (212) 805-0389

US District Court Judge Louis L. Stanton is the guy who told YouTube to give all your personal information and viewing history to Viacom, thus allowing Viacom to invade your privacy and probably sue you. Mail, phone, or fax him a piece of your mind.

(Info via the US District Court and FindLaw.)

Tags: Louis Stanton, privacy, stupid, Viacom, YouTube

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How fitting that we should fight oppression on Independence Day. YouTubers were quick to protest Viacom invading your privacy.

A YouTube search for the terms “Viacom” and “YouTube”, sorted by date, yields pagefulls of protest videos from the last 24 hours. These are just some of those protests.

Tags: privacy, Viacom, YouTube

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