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Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube
PC Magazine - 1 hour ago
by Chloe Albanesius Should Viacom be privy to the fact that you've watched "Cat Playing Piano" 57 times on YouTube since March? ...

Judge Protects YouTube's Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours ago
The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of ...

Yes, according to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York. Judge Louis Stanton on Wednesday ruled that Google must provide Viacom with YouTube user histories in Viacom's ongoing $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the video Web site.

Google must hand over all the information contained in its logging database, including the login ID of the users who have watched videos, the time they started to watch the video, users' IP address, and the video identifier.

Viacom claims that it must have access to the entire database in order to see whether users are watching infringing videos more than they are watching non-infringing content. If they are watching more videos with copyrighted data that might prove that Google had an incentive to keep them live on YouTube and did not actively work to remove them, according to Viacom.

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