Google to Viacom: 'Respect YouTube users' privacy'

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 07/03/2008 - 11:35am

Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.

The two companies are in the discovery part of the case and must make certain information available to each other.

On Wednesday, a ...



 

More related items

Google says Viacom's suit 'threatens' Net
Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange...

Google wins source code ruling against Viacom
Google won a legal ruling that allows it to keep secret from Viacom the source code central to search functions on YouTube. A federal judge ruled...

Google will take Viacom suit to Supreme Court
Google is willing fight Viacom all the way to the Supreme Court in the companies' legal battle over YouTube and pirated videos, but Viacom is taking...

Report: Comcast eats up DailyCandy
In a bidding skirmish with Viacom, the cable provider reportedly ended up paying $125 million for the women's e-newsletter company.

YouTube Olympics channel brings games to multiple nations
For countries like the U.S., where exclusive rights to content have been bought, YouTube will use IP geo-blocking to prevent access to the channel.


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.