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You Tube vs Viacom.

As many people know, Viacom has been in a lawsuit with Google, or YouTube specificlly, for a billion dollars. The lawsuit was created against youtube because Viacom feels that people are watching their shows on YouTube rather than watching them on TV, thus making them not being able to make any money. I feel that Viacom is way too greedy and that they are overreacting. Many poeple on youtube hate them, they make video’s about hating them! The judge for this lawsuit was Judge Louis L. Stanton and has forced youtube to give viacom all of their logs, meaning they can see everything that we have been watching aswell as out IP addresses. Even though the Supreme Court has ruled that we have a right to provacy, youtube has everything because we agreed to give them it when we signed up, I don’t believe that we agreed to give viacom anything, at all. It is a invasion of privacy. I think I speak for all of the youtubers when i say this, Viacom is a company full of greedy and nosey people and that they shouldn’t be aloud to invade our privacy. Obviously, google doesn’t care about their community and they should have cared about our privacy.