There’s a new movie opening in the UK this week titled Donkey Punch. Yes, the plot has to do with an actual donkey punch and from the trailer it looks like it kills the girl. Fox news is outraged by the donkey punch. Watch this trailer. Who would’ve thought you could make a mainstream film about this “act”?

Just watched the new teaser trailer for Terminator 4 and it definitely looks more promising than Terminator 3 but that’s not saying much. At least Arnold is out and Christian Bale is in. Time for a change?

This is probably the most even handed cartoon I’ve seen, and one of the only ones that goes after Barak in an intelligent way. Check out the directions at the end of the video to get your face in the video, because that’s what I’mma do right now.

Stay tuned to see what Daniel Taylor’s face is like when he reads this blog.

This three part series of Absolut Vodka ads by marketing genius Zach Galifianakis is probably the most awkward way to promote your product, ever.

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Privacy Advocates? Win! Viacom, parent company of MTV and BET, recently sued Google, owner of YouTube, for copyright infringement, demanding that Google submit users’ information so they can be tracked down and beheaded for watching Linkin Park and Hanna Montana videos for free. Google’s response: PISS OFF.

From BBC:

Viacom ‘backs off’ YouTube demand
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Google bought YouTube in 2006

Viacom has “backed off” from demands to divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched a video on YouTube, the website has claimed.

Google had been ordered to provide personal details of millions of YouTube users to help Viacom prepare its case on alleged copyright infringement.

Google, owners of YouTube, will now hand over the database but without data that could identify users.

Viacom has a $1bn (£497m) copyright infringement lawsuit against Google.

A class action by other organisations including the English Premier League has also agreed to the new terms.

“We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users’ viewing histories and we will not be providing that information,” said a statement on the YouTube blog.

The decision will be welcomed by privacy activists, many of whom expressed concern over a US judge’s order for Google to provide the data in early July.

Continuing battle

YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, is in battle with Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, over alleged copyright infringement.

Viacom alleges clips from its programmes have been viewed on YouTube without its consent.

When it initiated legal action in March 2007, it said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes on the website, which had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

Following the launch of its billion-dollar lawsuit, YouTube introduced filtering tools in an effort to prevent content that infringes copyright from appearing on the site.

Viacom had said it wanted the log data to “compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing video with that of non-infringing videos”.

But privacy activists argued in response that the original order “threatens to expose deeply private information” and was in breach of a 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act, which was passed after the rental habits of a Supreme Court nominee were publicised.

The new ruling means that Google will still have to hand over the data logs but in an “anonymized form”, meaning YouTube can swap user logins and IP addresses with other random signifiers

An earlier Viacom request that Google be forced to hand over the source code of YouTube has already been denied by a US court on the grounds it is a “trade secret”.

Despite Tuesday’s agreement, the companies are yet to agree the process of information disclosure regarding viewing of YouTube clips by employees of YouTube and Google. This is expected to be settled in the coming weeks.

The cases are expected to come to trial in 2009 or 2010.