Not that this is any secret, but US based media giant Viacom is suing Google, which bought YouTube in 2006 for $1 Billion US. Viacom argues that media content it should control is being loaded and accessed illegally on YouTube. Viacom has argued YouTube and Google could do a better job of blocking access to copyrighted material, but don’t, because that’s what most people are searching for.
That admission by Google and Youtube has now come back to haunt them. Viacom has capitalized on Google’s position during proceedings in a New York courtroom. Taking statements from Google’s own corporate blog, Viacom asked a N.Y. judge to compel Google to produce detailed information about the users of its Youtube service, including search logs, individual IP addresses and a record of the videos they accessed on YouTube.
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