YouTube: Viacom challenge threatens Internet freedom

Viacom, Google agree to mask 12TB of YouTube user data
As part of a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, YouTube has to turn over a 12TB database of every video ever watched on the site, complete...

Is Embedding Infringement? MPAA Sues Two Sites
While we still need to wait for the end result of the YouTube/Viacom case to learn whether hosting infringing videos is infringement itself, there's...

Viacom Ignores Promise: Sends Bogus Takedowns To YouTube
You may recall that back before it sued YouTube, Viacom sent the company 100,000 takedown notices, many of which turned out not to violate Viacom's...

Notes on the Viacom Ruling
LWN.net: "Google's purchase of YouTube always seemed questionable to some observers: it looked as if Google were buying itself a whole new source of...

What Do 12 Terabytes-Worth of Data Look Like?
In the ongoing $1 billion legal lawsuit between YouTube and Viacom, a federal judge has recently ordered the Google to turn over records of all users...