But I'm pretty sure YouTube wasn't around in 2003! :) And I don't know that there was a comparable platform back then.
If the videos had been distributed from a particular PLATFORM, then the platform itself could have been involved in the tracking (but then we wouldn't have had that whole watermarking MacGuffin -- it would rather have been "who controls the web site" or "where is the server" or something like that, I guess).
I suppose if Gibson had written this book just a couple of years later or so, some sort of YouTube clone might've figured into the plot, because I suppose that would only make sense -- but it wouldn't have become so established that one would simply assume that it would be *THE* (pretty much exclusive) place for video-sharing of this sort.
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If the videos had been distributed from a particular PLATFORM, then the platform itself could have been involved in the tracking (but then we wouldn't have had that whole watermarking MacGuffin -- it would rather have been "who controls the web site" or "where is the server" or something like that, I guess).
I suppose if Gibson had written this book just a couple of years later or so, some sort of YouTube clone might've figured into the plot, because I suppose that would only make sense -- but it wouldn't have become so established that one would simply assume that it would be *THE* (pretty much exclusive) place for video-sharing of this sort.