Badger.flynn

Hi

Not sure if everyone heard this but thought it would have an interesting topic. In the recent court case of Viacom Vs Google (Viacom sueing over youtube) a judge ordered google to hand over IP address to Viacom of users that had watched videos on youtube. The lawer for Viacom argued that the IP addresses were not enough to identify individual users that had watched the videos and therefore their ID was safe. What I want to is, if this is the case how could anyone be charged with using a P2P network if IP addresses can't identify users. IP addresses are exactly what are used in P2P cases.

Let us know what you think, here's the link also

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Google...ews-28666.html

switch.dota

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Badger.flynn

Think your missing the point and its not mentioned in the order thread, this means that you can't be charged with P2P file shaing as you simply state that in the case of Viacom Vs Google etc etc, No ????

Urufu_Shinjiro

Hmm, that's an interesting angle for sure....

Holy Crap! I just read that article and it looks like Viacom is trying their best to steal Googles business away!

Why the heck would they want the bloody source code?! They also wanted to know who paid what for advertising?

What the hell is Viacom playing at?

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