easy-fix, google make a search-tool that checks if the material is copyrighted. Then they are taking reasonable care, then they are unlikely to be sued.

Easy.

20 000 "worst INFRINGERS" who watched silly quality MTV video-clips' from 80' will receive $5k settlement letters from MPAAORANYOTHER freaks... 
Welcome in Internet for corps profits world!!


oki doki, errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm, google hand over said 'damning documents' then what ?? 

is viacom gonna say, "there i told you so" then chuck a hissy fit thats of such biblical proportions that the pirates houses/ships self destruct, or what ??

That judge is mad if he thinks 12TB will fit on a couple of standard hard drives! I would imagine Google will have to create some sort of RAID array of about 20 or so 1TB drives to store all that data and its parity information. Actually, they should supply it as RAID0 and hope Viacom damage one of the drives... ;)

I'm actually surprised it's only 12TB, I'd have thought it would be much bigger given how many people use YouTube every day. 

That said, why does Google have to capture IP address and username with every video viewing? I could understand needing something to uniquely record a viewing to prevent someone watching a video multiple times to boost his viewing numbers, but this situation is excellent proof that Google's obsession with logging people's searches is wide open to personal identification and breaching their privacy.

Things could be even worse if they were forced to open up their web search history. This ruling sets a bad precedent for people getting their hands on that data in the future I think.

Damn straight Google! The moment google starts handing over my personal infomation to courts and production companies is the moment I stop using Youtube!

This will end up turning into a Napter/Universal thing all over again, in which production companies like viacom will be left out in the cold and too far behind to catch up!

Broadcast your stuff online before we do!