A judge’s order that Google turn over YouTube user data to Viacom is raising privacy concerns. But some privacy advocates question why Google is collecting the data in the first place.

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An appeal by Google against the decision of a federal judge in New York that it must hand over details of every video ever viewed on YouTube to Viacom was not only widely expected, but thought to be pretty much a given. A comment by Google’s senior litigation counsel seems to suggest otherwise…File under ‘almost [...]

Bandwidth caps are almost universally loathed, except by the companies that implement them. Consumers hate them because they have to treat the Internet not as an inexhaustable resource, but as something that’s doled out to them. Each page they view, video they watch, or song they stream moves the needle closer to zero with the [...]

Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed [...]

It?s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called ?Seth MacFarlane?s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute [...]

It?s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called ?Seth MacFarlane?s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute [...]

It?s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called ?Seth MacFarlane?s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute [...]

It?s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called ?Seth MacFarlane?s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute [...]

It?s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called ?Seth MacFarlane?s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute [...]

It?s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called ?Seth MacFarlane?s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute [...]

YouTube is to extend the 10-minute limit on video clips for independent filmmakers and official YouTube content partners.In a memo sent to content partners last week, YouTube said: “You now will be able to upload and monetize videos in your account that are longer than 10 minutes. This feature is exclusively for partners.”The maxium file [...]

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading on three thinly-traded stocks that the agency said were being touted in spam and YouTube campaigns.
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