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。
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-elect
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aconitum delavaryi var. coreana l'ev.
acquitt
airedale (terrier)
alpha helix
Ambinaninony
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anthracotheres
basic dyes
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BGMP
bite the tongue
bocage
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canafistula
centerman
Chicago overcoat
circular journey
coefficient of genetic similarity
cold emission
competency test
debye t3 law
demising
devil's tower
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dichotomous question
discommodity
disordered state
dualrail and expand spacer type piston ring
eischen
emersiprata
external axis of similitude
eyeletting and riveting machine
farm-cart
firing on all four cylinders
fixed hearing aid
Foramen parietale
forgetting error
fotp
fructicolous
grated on
haploid number of chromosomes
herman
high pressure spray nozzle
ieva
increment routine
intra-class variance
inventory-income ratio
Karlova
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l'avoir
languet, langust(te)
Libberton
liquid purification process
litsea rubescens lec.
loran homing
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magnetooculography
management analysis reporting system
national education
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NIFC
norpinic acid
notched bar
odor-free
olje
optimum level of product
pacily
peaketh
piece-parts
pizza parlors
planning of skin flap in reverse
Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich
prereplication complex
priority interrupt strategy
proximal phalanges
Pular, Cerro
quiddler
rectifying action
reflecting color
right of independent trial
sales supervision
scientific management psychology
semicircular room
Serangoon Harb.
slipform concrete curb paver
sound energy flux density
split secondary
stainless steel can
stress plane
the Golden Gate
trans-disciplinary
transient data aggregator
two step nozzle
unducal
verbal reinforcement
vessels subjected to external pressure
when'd
will-jill
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