Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom
U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. & other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips. Judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips & when.
The data would not be publicly released but disclosed only to the plaintiffs & it would include less specific identifiers than a user’s real name or e-mail address. The court is also ordering that Google hand over all videos that have ever been taken down for any reason. The logs alone take up 12 terabytes. The court order never states what form, the data must be delivered in. PDF download of court order here
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