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By: Alfabetic » Blog Archive » El Problema de Confianza es con Google, no con Viacom

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:40:01 +0000

[...] Viacom está hablando nuevamente, y diciendo que ellos no utilizarán la información para ir tras [...]

By: Anvato Launches Video ID Service « NewTeeVee

Anvato Launches Video ID Service « NewTeeVee — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:46 +0000

[...] just a reality these days. Content owners do have some methods for protecting their IP (Viacom is still waiting on its particular choice), but none of them are simple or comfortable fixes. Most solutions, like [...]

By: Its Rockin » Blog Archive » The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:09:51 +0000

[...] Viacom is talking again, and saying that they won’t use the information to go after [...]

By: The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom | NewsMeToday

The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom | NewsMeToday — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:14:08 +0000

[...] Viacom is talking again, and saying that they won’t use the information to go after [...]

By: links for 2008-07-13 « Nur mein Standpunkt

links for 2008-07-13 « Nur mein Standpunkt — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:32:34 +0000

[...] Viacom: Easy Tiger, We Don’t Want Your Data « NewTeeVee Nur unsere Seelen, klar… Viacom legt da, was sie mit den ganzen Daten von Youtube machen wollen – persönliche Überwachung? Nicht doch… (tags: Owl-Content) [...]

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:56:13 +0000

It’s not practical or worthwhile for Viacom to go after individual users. Of course, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen – but it makes it a lot less likely, IMHO. I’m not losing any sleep.

By: Dream Incubator » Blog Archive » The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom » ドリームインキュベータ

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:42:28 +0000

[...] Viacom is talking again, and saying that they won’t use the information to go after [...]

By: Helder

Helder — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:28:57 +0000

"Viacom doesn’t want to know what you watch on YouTube, so you can all relax. At least, that’s what an representative from the company told me Friday."

That could be what they told YOU, not the JUDGE.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:14:32 +0000

Viacom is full of …. they want more money for their pockets. They could care less about YouTube. As long as they get money, they could play with us like marionettes.

By: will

will — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:02:25 +0000

I say viacom is really overstepping their boundries with this one !

By: The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom

The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:58:14 +0000

[...] Viacom is talking again, and saying that they won’t use the information to go after [...]

By: A Computer Expert

A Computer Expert — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:53:27 +0000

I am a computer expert and I can tell you this. Even if they remove all the IP/username infos, it's still easy to find who watched what.

This is how to do it :

Everybody watch their own videos from time to time and most people have a lot of non-popular videos.

You go on Youtube and scan the whole site to get the usernames and what videos they posted. Save that list in a BD.

You take, let's say a single user from that BD and match all the videos from the Viacom/Google BD. You then take a look at the whole collection that have been watched by only a unique "anonymous" ID. If no one else watched the whole collection, you already have a really high probability match. If someone else did, you look at who watched it the most since most people are the own who watch the most their own videos.

That's just one way to do it.

I don't need to tell you that with IP/username, it just make things easier.

I'm 100% certain that Google are about to appeal this case since it's impossible to anonymize the logs, and believe me, they know it.