Where has Mubin Been? Is GooGle “Not Evil”?
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I can tell you one thing. I wasn’t trying to make $500 a day with youtube.
If you were though, I seriously hope that you were using proxies because Viacom now has access/will have access to everyone’s i.p. that has ever accessed youtube for viewing/uploading videos. So while it probably wont be a problem if you were watching the occasional family guy clip on youtube. If you were uploading lets say 100’s of videos of watermarked music videos it could lead to some trouble if they deide to crack down on this sort of thing.
And since the whole reason that they took gooGle to court for the i.p. addresses was so that they could track down copyright infringers it seems that they start a RIAA type lawsuit campaign against individuals.
One thing before Im out. I must say that I am glad that it took a court order for GooGle to hand over information to a third party.
But something that gets to me is this: GooGle’s ethical policy is simple. “Don’t be evil”. as a society we have been taught that piracy is “evil”. In essence Viacom only wants the info of people involved in illegal activities, so why didn’t GooGle help them out?
Image stolen from: Aminolgy
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mubin said:
BTW, I stole that image from Aminology.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:23 am -
TheAnand said:
Privacy is something that google holds dear. Don’t be evil is for the consumers, not for those corporations who are patent squatting and stuff.
Imagine if google decided to give away adsense info to the govt. tax depts. to help cracking illegal accounting of money, reader info for security agencies to to track physcopaths, and ip information for you tube users…..
Sorry, i am not going to be using google then!!!
July 13th, 2008 at 8:33 am -
Deran said:
Hey mubin.. glad to see ya back!..
July 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pm -
edward said:
mubin,
where have u been? thought u were writing an ebook.
br,
eJuly 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm -
mubin said:
had to make the most amount of money from the method before i start giving away my secrets again!
July 14th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
