时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:英伦广角


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YouTube's multibillion-pound success was built initially 1 on user-generated content; so successful has it become that the company's owner Google recently announced plans to pay contributors shares of advertising 2 revenue. But as anyone who uses the site knows, and who doesn't, there are also vast amounts of professionally-made material, so why, says one film and TV giant, shouldn't it be paid as well?


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Viacom's cases are far from being user-generated. Much of YouTube's most popular content is actually made at great expense on a commercial basis by film and television companies. And that for such material simply to be regurgitated free of charge on what essentially 3 is a rival channel amounts to copyright theft.


A New York court has granted Viacom access to Google's records of Internet Protocol 4 addresses—every individual signature of every individual computer which has been used to watch clips on the site. Viacom has given what it calls an unequivocal promise not to use the information to uncover users' identities; it says it simply wants to find out how much of YouTube's business is predicated on people watching copyrighted material. So is there a real risk to privacy?


It's actually much harder than it might seem to, to truly anonymize this quantity of data. It's not just a matter of taking off the usernames or even replacing the IP addresses with random-looking numbers. If you've got records of individuals viewing tens or hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of different YouTube videos, it actually can be quite easy to link those together and then to link them back to a given individual.


Google says it's disappointed that the court granted, what it calls, Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history, and is pressing to be allowed to anonymize the information before it hands it over. But the search engine company has come into criticism itself from electronic privacy campaigners for keeping user data for commercial purposes. This high-stakes bet between old and new media giants has thrown a light on wider-reaching issues of privacy and anonymity 5 on the Internet.



1 initially
adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
2 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
3 essentially
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
4 protocol
n.议定书,草约,会谈记录,外交礼节
  • We must observe the correct protocol.我们必须遵守应有的礼仪。
  • The statesmen signed a protocol.那些政治家签了议定书。
5 anonymity
n.the condition of being anonymous
  • Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. 为了姓名保密,书中的人用的都是化名。
  • Our company promises to preserve the anonymity of all its clients. 我们公司承诺不公开客户的姓名。
学英语单词
-themed
alkylol amine
All-America team
allenol
amphitretids
antagonism of ions
antioxidant 1076
apobole
assembly line
automatic stepping
auxiliary equiptment
Ban Thimongtha
banana spider
blow by of piston
bob a curtsey
buret memiscus reader
cache cluster size
caic
Carlisle Canyon
cellulolytic microflora
cerataphis brasiliensis
change notice
chords
claudette
clospirazine
contiguglia
cooler crystallizer
Coroisânmǎrtin
cotton paper oil filter
cruising condition
cryptarithms
cuprous amminobromide
D.C.
deggans
deworms
diclinism
diesel-fuel water and sediment
dihydroxyestrin
emilie charlotte le bretons
empearled
Enernoc
exponential formula
extratextuality
factionalist
faegri laws
field-effect controlled switch
firingconsole
fixed -bed reactor
full a.g.c.
garbage man
Gasker
hardboiled egg
heuristic method
high resolution electron microscopy
homologous part of triangle
Hunger is the best sauce
idlertransition
implicit order
indefinite delivery type contract
karcheffe
kofia
lady
ladybirds
malamocco
mit-
molten-salt growth
multi-phase sampling
myrmecophyte
nants
Nukunono Atoll
off the hizzle
optimal asymptotic test
passenger facilities
piqueer
pit traverser
pom
predecessor block
public sector comparison
pulling back
randomly coiled chain
release trunk C
resistance to transverse displacement of track
semiintutitive skill
single-propeller plane
solventless coating
spinelet
spray disc
St Joseph R.
stripped charcoal
suction side of blade
Tadjura Trough
teachin
torpedo exercise head
trading in
trichard
UCP (utility control program)
ultraroyalist
various colors acrylic matt coating
VENUS-P
well-tried export quota technique
whomever
zeerlader von