Who's Infringing on Whom?

Internet privacy: the issue that seems to be growing in controversy with every headline.
While this current dispute between Viacom and YouTube has brought it again into the spotlight, internet privacy has been a legal grey area since the beginning of the world wide web.
Copyright infringement will never be completely eradicated, and, while I admit it to be a big problem that needs solving, it should never come at the cost of the security and privacy of the ordinary individual.
We cannot allow this to be so. Our freedoms of speech and press are barely hanging on, though they be the things that distinguishes America. How can we sit by and let the liberty to watch YouTube videos, or write a blog, or check our email without having the shadow of Big Brother Government looming over us?

- Modern Diogenes -