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YouTube, Viacom Both Want To Uphold User Privacy. As For IPs

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2008-07-05 15:08:42 by Paul Glazowski in Mashable!
...Viacom for videos uploaded to and played back on the megasite YouTube . The extent of the demand is quite extraordinary. The data Viacom has asked for stretches back a few years time, and seeing that the video host now serves user requests for billions of clips every month, Googles compliance on the matter would no doubt toss this case firmly...
 
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Viacom On The Web: Where's The Growth?

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2008-04-28 12:28:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Viacom (VIA) has been playing catch-up on the Web. But Viacom's efforts, marked by a flurry of acquisitions and even more press releases, haven't amounted to much In fact, unique visitors to Viacom's U.S. unique visitors to Viacom sites actually decreased from August 2007 through February of this year according to comScore. Viacom finally...
 
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The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom

2008-07-12 22:58:04 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
 
...Viacom to help Viacom determine damages in their ongoing billion dollar litigation with Google We and others cried out in protest, since the data being delivered included username, IP address and identifiers of all videos viewed on YouTube . And the entity it was being delivered to has a penchant for litigating over copyright infringement...
 
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Indiana Jones, Iron Man Push Viacom's Q2, But Ad Sales Sputter At Cable Networks

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2008-07-29 16:34:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
Viacom turned in a generally strong quarter, or as strong as it could be with domestic ad revenue basically flat, or up 1%, and ratings weakness at MTV and BET. Viacom beat Wall Street estimates on revenue ($3.86 billion) and EPS ($0.64 Driving the results in the quarter was a big movie slate including Indiana Jones, Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda....
 
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Will Viacom Build Another Hulu?

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2008-06-23 10:30:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Viacom (VIA) build another Hulu -- a self-contained video aggregator stocked with all of its own content? Yes. Will it? Maybe To date, Viacom's Web strategy has involved 1) suing Google/YouTube and 2) building hundreds of mini-sites, each focused on a particular show or network Now we hear that some Viacom insiders are pushing the company to...
 
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Viacom Wanted the Source Code for Google's Search Engine, But Obtained YouTube's Server Logs

2008-07-03 15:22:00 by Ionut Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
 
...Viacom and Google , regarding the videos uploaded to YouTube that infringe Viacom's copyright, Viacom really wants to prove that the most popular videos watched at YouTube were from its programs. Viacom even claimed that Google's search results are biased to give better ranking to the infringing YouTube videos, so it asked for... Google's...
 
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Viacom: Our Video Views Are Going Up And comScore Data Is Bogus

2008-09-17 14:57:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Viacom, Disney, ESPN, Veoh, Yahoo and Comcast Now we're hearing from several of the big sites themselves, and they've all got the same response: comScore is wrong Viacom says while it uses comScore's Media Metrix data for unique Web visitors, and considers it reliable, comScore's video data is way off, and that Viacom stopped subscribing to...
 
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Viacom: Viewers Fleeing Broadcast TV Didn't Come To MTV

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2008-05-02 12:24:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
Viacom certainly turned in a strong first quarter (profits up 33%), but the driver at MTV Media Networks (up 16%) wasn't television, but the video game Rock Band. Strictly looking at TV, Viacom's gains were modest: ratings up 5% and ad revenue up 7%. On the earnings call, CEO Philippe Dauman was asked if MTV should have benefited more as...
 
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Viacom Doesn't Want Everyone's YouTube History. It Wants Chad Hurley's

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2008-07-13 13:33:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
Viacom's line in the YouTube lawsuit privacy imbroglio : We don't really want to know who's watching what on Google's video service . Not entirely true: Turns out Viacom does want to know what founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and other YouTube employees have been uploading and watching So says CNET, which reports that Viacom's request for...
 
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