Melbourne, July 3 : A District Court judge has ordered YouTube to hand over the details of each clip watched on the website—along with the date, time, and IP address of each user who watched the clips—to media giant Viacom.
Judge Louis Stanton granted Viacom access to the records as part of its ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, and its subsidiary YouTube.
Whenever a YouTube user watches a video, the website’s "Logging" database records the user ID and IP address of the viewer, as well as the date and time of the request and the ID of the clip.