YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom

psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as 'speculative' and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four terabyte hard drives." Update: 07/03 18:05 GMT by T : Brian Aker, now of MySQL but long ago Slashdot's "database thug," writes a journal entry on how companies could intelligently treat such potentially sensitive user data.

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This is a first.

[Anonymous Coward]

...since IANAL reading the ruling [wired.com] won't do me much more good than a lawyer reading uncommented source code.

This is a first! Just about everyone here believes that, since the law is written in English, you don't need a law degree to interpret, understand, and especially, comment on it. After all, it's not technical and therefore requires less intelligence than anyone here: engineers have superior intelligence above all.