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Anonymous lines up a Viacom operation
ONLINE HACKTIVIST GROUP Anonymous has posted a warning to Viacom for its oppressive treatment of Youtube users and its apparently underhanded actions in seizing their information.
Anonymous often delivers, and the warning could raise some alarm at Viacom. The group was very forthright in its post on the Anonops blog and accused the firm of all sorts of nefarious behaviour.
"Viacom has become a threat to our personal rights and our privacy as individuals," it said. "The logging of millions of IP addresses and personal information extends beyond the domain of acceptability. When one's capitalistic agenda interferes with, exploits, and profits through infringing upon an individuals freedom, we, Anonymous, endorse the people's rights and hereby demand a refund."
This grabbing of personal information and its use in attempting to suppress alleged copyright infringement is many steps too far, according to the group, and it warned Viacom, "Expect us." Unless, of course, it gets its house in order.
"Anonymous demands from Viacom a public press release to admit and apologize for the fraud and crimes that they have commited. Anonymous also demands that Viacom allows everyone thoughout the internet full rights to be able to express themselves," it said.
"Lastly, we, the citizens of the world, demand that Viacom stops their attempts to gather personally identifying information such as IP's, which are of no relevance to them."
Anonymous posts its press releases on Youtube, but this privilege is being denied it. Rather than post its actual statement on the web site, Anonymous has uploaded a place holder with a link to alternate provider Daily Motion in the video's description.
"This is how our videos will be uploaded for now on, We can no longer post them here, as YouTube censors our material", it explained. µ
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So your rage is directed at Anonymous, in reality, because they don't condone perverted sexual behavior like you do. I always shake my head every time I read that some rump ranger queen, such as yourself, decries that normal heterosexuals are homophobic, a term that is a misnomer itself, because we aren't the ones afflicted with abnormal sexual behavior. In fact, you, Beelzebub, are obviously heterophobic. May I suggest that you go seek a psychologist who may be able to help you with your sexually deviant abnormalities.
Regarding Anonymous, they may not be perfect, but I'm certainly glad they're out there fighting the growing scurge of Corporatism, a.k.a. fascism, that is already so prevalent today worldwide.
Talk about big mouths "Beelzebub", call yourself that and then are afraid to type the words 'suck' and 'ass'? Pathetic to be honest.
But hey it's lord of the flies, the insignificant thingies that you swat away without thinking about them so it does make SOME sense :)
And to Pixelm: The viacom newsletter is not the best source of reliable info (even when you are shareholder).
Although I must admit the viacom trial is pretty old but anonymous is saying that they are peeved that viacom doesn't relent, and youtube does remove viacom stuff they aren't allowed to have quite actively anyway so viacom should stop being so silly, especially since they themselves put whole shows on their webpages, so then why get hysterical if there are clips also on youtube?
That old guy (CEO) is mad and unpleasant and is probably building a freaking pyramid somewhere - if you get what I'm saying.
The great freedom fighters of the technology speak. Just ignore the fact that they are hypocrites and are highly homophobic. All praise Anonymous! They should hire Reverend Phelps big fat loudmouthed daughter to speak for them.
Anyways, Viacom is old news. It's not like they are punishing and extorting from innocent people, pensioners, widows and dead people. It now seems the bullied has now become the bully.
Why not take out YouTube for denying you freedom of speech and censoring you? I thought you were big tough homophobic vigilantes that no one can stop? Pfft.
I'm tired of anonymous masquerading around pretending to defend me. I don't need to be defended by them, they do not represent me. I speak out and represent myself and fight in my own way.
Anonymous can s*ck my a**.
Anonymous needs to get its facts in order.
Viacom agreed to only get anonymized information as soon as this was identified as an issue - that's almost 4 years ago (even then it was only IPs, not personal information).
And viacom claims that the posted clips were very small in number. the post just cites YouTube's argument, not stated facts.
As to piracy - well - how can a company that spends a lot on making content allow piracy to continue without addressing it?
With judges now ignoring the basic constitutional rights and protection by ruling that each time some weaselly company asks for all personal details of youtube users (and way out of scope of the cases) perhaps those judges should have their personal details put on display.
And youtube has enough money to try a bit harder to prevent such abuse by wayward judges too, bunch of yes-nodders.