Feel help: All Your Data Belong to Us! - Help.com

This means if you have an account at youtube, then viacom will now receive all of the data that Google has about you (well, all the *youtube* records).

I think the data in your youtube account includes data about all of the videos you have watched, all of the videos you have rated, all of the comments you have made, etc. — and it is tied to your particular computer via the IP address records.

they say they will use it to prove the “degree” to which the material which infringes their copyrights are “consumed” (watched).

BTW: I voted “other” because I believe *both* #1 *and* #2 are valid arguments (I guess it was a “trick” question ;)

(that’s the only way you get to see the results)

Yes, well I think it’s mostly Americans freak out that someone might know something about them — I guess maybe it’s something like a religion! (LOL)

BD

Hey, there’s alot more *ugly* MFer’s than Americans! (LMAO)

actually, after I wrote it I noticed that it’s actually related to a quote by Frank Zappa (and now I will probably have to spend an hour trying to find it)…

… oh: easier than I thought:

“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you’re out there and you’re cute, maybe you’re beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin’ — there’s more of us UGLY MOTHERF*****S than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”

* Dance Contest (on the album Tinsel Town Rebellion)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

BD

Well, just *pretend* people at help.com were constantly violating copyright (like: scanning books and uploading them onto the site). Then if the copyright holders pressed charges and asked for all of the user data, then the analogy would be that our data would be handed over to someone else (that’s pretty much what the news link at the top says is happening between viacom and youtube).