YouTube must give full logs to Viacom
U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs for Viacom, so that they can see whether their copyrighted videos are more heavily watched than amateur-uploaded ones.
The logs won’t be publicly released, they will go straight to Viacom. This would be a direct threat to users’ privacy, said Google’s lawyers. Every log would contain: the name of each video a user is playing, user’s ID and his/her IP address.
However, Google’s secret source code will not be disclosed for the plaintiffs.
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