Viacom to get 12TB of YouTube data as part of lawsuit
Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube rumbles on, and it’s currently in the discovery process. As part of that, Google has been ordered to give Viacom a complete set of every video ever removed from the site for copyright infringementand a 12-terabyte database of logging information on every video ever watched on YouTube - along with the username and IP addresses of the people who watched them. It’s the latter point that has got privacy campaigners riled up though. As Mashable points out: “Unless you’ve been extra careful to only watch non-copyrighted videos on YouTube (yeah, right), Viacom could sue you. No, it’s even worse: they could actually win.”
