Disclaimer: The Chat below represents our point of view of the situation

*Note -This being a chat on Yahoo Messenger typos may appear

Tim Garcia: what image service does yahoo use now?
eXeS slayer: huh?
Tim Garcia: nvm
eXeS slayer: flickr?
Tim Garcia: yeah
eXeS slayer: btw
eXeS slayer: did you know
eXeS slayer: that the court decided
eXeS slayer: that google has to share
eXeS slayer: w/ viacom
eXeS slayer: “the judge’s ruling that Google does need to hand over log files including the IP address and usernames of people who viewed YouTube videos”
Tim Garcia: nope
Tim Garcia: so that means they share the prfit or what?
Tim Garcia: profit
eXeS slayer: no
eXeS slayer: that means
eXeS slayer: that viacom who ownes paramount and some music label group
eXeS slayer: sued google
eXeS slayer: for  lots and lots of  money
eXeS slayer: google now has to share the ip addresses of the people who watched, uploaded the vids
Tim Garcia: hmm
eXeS slayer: meaning privacy will be violated
Tim Garcia: well ip addresses don’t really show much
Tim Garcia: cause my ip says i am in los angeles
Tim Garcia: lol
eXeS slayer: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080703/0154271581.shtml
eXeS slayer: dude
eXeS slayer: when they talk
eXeS slayer: to your isp
eXeS slayer: they find out
eXeS slayer: even what sites you browsed
eXeS slayer: http://news.cnet.com/pdf/ne/2007/ViacomYouTubeComplaint3-12-07.pdf
eXeS slayer: good luck
eXeS slayer: on readin’
eXeS slayer: lol
eXeS slayer: Page: 2/27
Tim Garcia: lol
Tim Garcia: te lawsuit is pretty much pointless
Tim Garcia: its more a political then anythign else
Tim Garcia: obviously you can’t put full movies on youtube
Tim Garcia: ok
Tim Garcia: well youtube isn’t the only site
Tim Garcia: that does this
Tim Garcia: they only went after them cause google is worth so much
eXeS slayer: true
Tim Garcia: so its political
Tim Garcia: i mean look at all the comedy skits, tv show skits on youtube
Tim Garcia: all of those are copyrighted
eXeS slayer: ya
Tim Garcia: so wtf does it matter with viacom lol
eXeS slayer: youtube
eXeS slayer: hosts
eXeS slayer: more than
Tim Garcia: politics is what is wrong with the world
eXeS slayer: 160.000 copyrighted viacom videos
eXeS slayer:viacom ownes the MTV network, produces South park and lots of other shows
eXeS slayer: wouldnm’t be profitable
eXeS slayer: to sue a broke ass guy
eXeS slayer: lol
Tim Garcia: yeah i know
Tim Garcia: but my point is
Tim Garcia: it deosn’t really matter
Tim Garcia: where it is
Tim Garcia: no matter hwo political they get
Tim Garcia: they will always get their videos posted somewehre else
eXeS slayer: ima post this up on ma blog
Tim Garcia: do it!

Its great to talk to an other tech-oriented guy about stuff that’s going on in the world, youtube is the biggest brand in the video sharing network and it’s something that entered history just as Google did.