Google to tell Viacom how many times you watched LonelyGirl15
Two rulings came down in Viacom's copyright infringement suit against Google and its video-sharing site YouTube yesterday. The first: Despite Viacom's wishes, Google will not have to turn over YouTube's source code. It will however, turn over to Viacom "every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses," reports Threat Level. Viacom's lawyers say they need to the information to prove that copyright-infringing content is more popular on the site than legally uploaded videos. We're hoping Viacom will go on to publish the list, just like AOL did with users' search queries back in 2006. Remember how much fun that was?