“As part of its $1 billion lawsuit against user-video site YouTube, Viacom will receive a complete log of all users’ activities, which will include a list of usernames, IP addresses, and videos that each account has viewed in the past. Viacom says it wants to use the data to prove that copyright-infringing videos draw higher amounts of traffic than user-generated and fully-legal content. If Viacom’s hypothesis turns out to be true, it could increase penalties against YouTube if found liable for contributory copyright infringement. Google argued that revealing site logs — 12 terabytes in total and the sole source of information for video view counts — would constitute a massive breach of user privacy and place an undue burden on the company, who would need to vet the data for relevant information.” (07/03/08)