Barence writes "Google and Viacom have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers. Earlier this month, a New York federal judge ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom and other plaintiffs to help them prepare a confidential study of what they argue are vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site. 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. This follows yesterday's news that Viacom is looking for videos uploaded by Google staff, in what could be a potentially explosive aspect of its copyright infringement claim against the search giant." Link to Original Source
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