Geeks are Sexy Technology News – This is potentially huge. Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has been involved in a legal battle with YouTube (and now Google) over what Viacom alleges is massive copyright infringement of their property. Viacom claims to have identified 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes.

Now, a US court has told Google that it must hand [...] read more

Andy ITGuy – At least that is apparently what Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York thinks. He has ordered Google to turn over 12 terabytes of data to Viacom. This data contains PERSONAL information on all YouTube users who have created an account and viewed videos. This data contains user IDs, IP addresses and viewing/uploading history. Obviously this does present a teeny bit of a privacy concern. The good Judge Stanton dismissed Googles privacy concerns as read more

bloginfosec.com – There was an article by Timothy Aeppel on the front page of the June 13, 2008 issue of The Wall Street Journal with the title “Stung by Soaring Transport Cost, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again” (subscription required). The article is about manufacturers bringing back some of their production from China to domestic plants because the [...] read more