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Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves

(Posted on  TechCrunch  about 1 month ago)

The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far mor… (visit source article)
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