Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom...
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"The judge also turned Google's own defense of its data retention policies -- that IP addresses of computers aren't personally revealing in and of themselves, against it to justify the log dump."
Uhh... Why did you want the IP addresses again, Viacom?
UPDATE: Google has asked Viacom to allow them to anonymize users' data:
"... We are asking Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."
UPDATE: They got the permission:
"Google claims it had now agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys with a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube usernames and IP addresses that could be used to identify individual video watchers."
