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In the case of copyright infringement, which opposes the media group Viacom, YouTube feels compelled to provide its historical connection.
The case dates back to March of 2007. Viacom, a large group of American media holding, inter alia, Comedy Central, Dreamworks, MTV and Paramount, had filed a complaint against YouTube, the famous video portal owned by Google. The first accused the second violation of copyright with the dissemination of 160 000 videos that it owns the rights. These videos have been seen 1.5 billion times, which would consequently generating advertising revenue for YouTube, but also caused losses for Viacom.
A judge in a federal court in the city of San Francisco just to order YouTube to restore the historical connection of its users (4 TB of data) so that Viacom can prove that its videos were posted and views massively, in order to justify the billion dollars that is claimed as compensation. It has been clarified by Viacom that will not take the opportunity to identify users by their IP addresses.
However, Viacom has been dismissed for its request for obtaining the source code of the platform and tool for detecting illegal content.
