So much for data protection

[War Griffon]

Just caught a brief snippet on the BBC News that apparently an American judge has ordered that Google/Youtube must reveal the names/email addresses of every person that has viewed avideo on Youtube.

Claiming it is to do with copyright law???
Sounds like the millions of us that have seen video footage on Youtube are now criminals ???

 

[Roger Bunting]

Wouldn\'t that contravene (sp?) all sorts of international privacy laws and what-not?

 

[War Griffon]

I\'m not a lawyer or an expert in the field but that was my thought as well.

 

[squidders]

seems that no law or civil right is above some piss ant judge blurting out otherwise.

It\'s not that i\'m hiding something but what is being done is just wrong.

 

[Evil Dave]

It\'ll go to a higher court and get thrown out.

What are they going to do if they sue 30 million + people and all those people say \"screw you\"?

 

[Sand Rat]

Sounds like the RIAA model to me. lol

 

[DaN]

Maybe we could file CLASS ACTION <Smug mode> and counter-sue the judge

 

[hakoMike]

I\'m no lawyer, I\'m guessing it has more to do with proving to a judge that many, many different people in many places viewed the copyrighted material, strengthening the concept that somehow damages were done to Viacom.