• Andrew
• Jul 15,2008
• In: Internet

Viacom holds back on YouTube user Histories

Viacom has backed off on an order made to YouTube to hand over all the viewing histories for their users; Twelve Terabytes of data. The information would include what users, their IP addresses, what videos they watched and all that type of stuff. Blogs around the net predicted this would be to only hunt down and sue individual users for watching copyrighted videos online.

Viacom actually claimed they just wanted to prove that infringed content was more popular than user-created videos, but hey, who can trust anyone with such information?

Apparently not wanting to look like big-bad-jerks which the whole internet views them as right now (the ones that know what’s going on in the world and aren’t preoccupied watching infringed content) however now Viacom just wants a list of infringed videos and how many views they’ve gotten… or something like that.

Surely a great “victory” for the internet and Google indeed.