In a hearing today Google found out [nw] that it can’t win them all especially when it comes to its court battle with Viacom. This is the lawsuit where Viacom is seeking more than $1 Billion in damages because of Google allowing users to upload copyrighted material to YouTube. Viacom said it wants YouTube’s userbase information in order to increase Google’s liability in the matter.
It turns out that Judge didn’t go for Google’s safe harbor argument and has ordered Google to turn all user records over to Viacom. The funny part about this is that the judge also used Google’s own argument – that IP addresses of computers aren’t personally revealing in and of themselves – against the company. Needless to say the Electronic Frontier Foundation has reacted [nw] calling the judge’s order a violation of the Video Privacy Act.
But here’s the answer to the quiz question – it will take four terabyte hard drives to hold all of the user records for YouTube.
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