In a move similar to what the RIAA and Record companies did to ISP and their users, Viacom has requested that YouTube turn over user data to help Viacom and other plaintiffs prepare their case against what they claim are vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site.
However, a deal was reached where user information was omitted from the data submitted to Viacom.
This sounds awfully familiar to incidents where the RIAA would request user information from ISPs in order to pursue individuals that illegally downloaded songs. There are many privacy concerns here. How private is our information on the web? And will we be entering a stage where video rights management restricts users from using video sharing websites like YouTube? Many questions like these have to be answer in the coming years.
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