Viacom won a court order forcing YouTube to turn over data on every video viewed by registered users. Their goal is clearly to sue and/or intimidate users of YouTube and similar sites for viewing copyrighted material. (Before long, look for somber propaganda ads in movie theatres threatening, "If you watch a copyrighted video on YouTube, you can be sued.")
Fuck that world. Let's push back hard. We need a complete overhaul of copyright laws to bring them into line with the moral standards of our generation. My quick suggestions: Make every television clip older than 25 years free to upload, download and view in most cases. For more recent clips, I suggest a two-week window of free use around any broadcast date thereof. (How do you like your own medicine, assholes? You're going to stick actors and writers with no-pay online windows? Well we're going to do it right back to you!) Another way to go would be to allow a limited number of views or downloads for every media clip as a "community record." I could also support the revocation of corporate charters and broadcast licenses of media companies that wage war against the communities they exist to serve.