“ Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. ”
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com
Copyright and privacy issues aside, this is a human interest story. Namely, how would you like to be the youngest legal aide in Viacom’s law firm and have to spend the next, who-knows-how-long pouring over logs of every video watched by YouTube users?
There’s your torture story right there.
(via myminutiae)My first thought in reading this article was “I would totally love that job.”