Google: 3, Viacom: 2 in Discovery Ruling
As part of its billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube/Google, Viacom requested a vast pile of information for discovery, including user IP addresses and source code, reports Ars Technica.
Although the judge did not grant all of Viacom’s requests, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog looks at what the decisions means for Internet privacy. Columbia Prof. Tim Wu commented, “We realize that there’s this giant vault of private information held by Google and YouTube and other companies, and [the ruling] makes very clear that any federal judge in the country can order access to it.”