Google Ordered to Disclose YouTube User Data

A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database that links users to every video they've watched on YouTube by login name and IP address. According to Andy Greenberg, writing in Forbes, Viacom hopes to use the data to show that copyright-infringing videos uploaded by users to the Google-owned site are viewed more often than the site's non-infringing videos. See Greenberg's YouTube's Legal Fig Leaf. In this NPR podcast, Jennifer Urban, director of the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, discusses the implications this ruling has for online privacy. See also Google ordered to hand over YouTube records. [JH]