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Your youtube viewing habits about to be public

Google, youtube written by Doug Scott

Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement have resulted in a US court ruling that the viewing logs of individuals will be handed over to Viacom The viewing logs will contain the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details.

There goes my secret porn life.

Doug goes back to magazines

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Like Youtube you can loose another million today – oh well

youtube written by Doug Scott

Some facts:

• one thousand gigabytes of data is transmitted by YouTube per second
• OR three hundred billion gigabytes on a monthly basis
• Estimations are that in 2007 the amount of bandwidth spent by YouTube was the equivalent of what the entire World Wide Web utilised in the year 2000.

• each single day the company spends close to one million dollars on bandwidth alone
• YouTube costs approximately three per cent of the operating costs of Google
• Estimates are these costs are US$300-500 million for last year, 2007.
• ten to twenty per cent of the videos on YouTube are of professional quality while the rest are made by amateurs

Youtube have to show a lot of banner ads to make that cash back, and who wants to have their ad next to a video of sex or something worse:

Doug enjoys youtube and clicks on no ads

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