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This is not right.
http://tinyurl.com/5ujbna (CNN story)
I do not want 12 million books worth of data available to a select group.
it’s a fight worth fighting, unless you don’t care who views your IP address and the data linked to it.
(edited url for length, it was messing up our feed)
This article appears in Jul 3-9, 2008.
2 Comments
The judge’s decision was asinine…but he also graduated from law school in the 1950s and has no grasp of the arguments (ViaCom almost got the rights to Google’s source code). The Electronic Frontier, Washington Post and other groups/media that are not in the pockets of big tele-comm are railing against this decision. There will be appeals. Most think the judge was paid to find for ViaCom. This is another example of the ignorant and the corporate with the power.
Yeah, this story pissed me off too. I found it funny that the judge was happy to hand over names and IP addresses, which threatens the individual’s privacy and could open them up to prosecution, but was reluctant to interfere with the company’s profit making source code. Kind of tells a lot about his way of thinking.