YouTube/Google Vs. Viacom

[paraka]

By now everyone has heard about the court order for Google to hand over all it's user data to Viacom right?

As fandom we're particularly vulnerable to copyright laws. What are your reactions to this decision?

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Re: slippery slope to repeal freedom

[paraka]

What I hate about it, is *people* are being ignored for big companies. Hell, in Canada, even the artist are being ignored. A copyright law recently passed (actually I found out that it passed while in Dallas) here in Canada that really closely mirrors what's currently law in the US. Canadians cried out against it. Canadian *artists* cried out against it. But the US has been pretty heavy handed in making it's trading partners change their copyright laws to more closely reflect the US laws, so Canadians were ignored and the law was passed.

I was reading a blog on the CBC website yesterday where the guy was basically saying "Why are people upset about this, Viacom isn't allowed to do anything with the information they are getting, other than present it at court." And I replied saying a couple things, but one, a US court shouldn't have the right to order international information over (espeically since that order goes against a lot of copyright laws for the countries where some of the information was gathered). And two, the US is the country out there being the "trend setters" for copyright law, and they're doing a crappy job about it!

I really hope that people can stand up and get this kind of thing stopped. I joined the EFF because of this, and I think I'm going to try my best to boycott Viacom. There may be angry letters in the future.