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No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data
By Nate Anderson | Published: July 03, 2008 - 01:15PM CT

As part of the discovery process in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Viacom asked for an astonishing array of information: the source code for the search functions that power Google and YouTube, the source code for YouTube's new "Video ID" program, a complete set of every video ever removed from the site, databases containing information on every video ever hosted at YouTube, and a copy of every private video. The judge has now ruled, saying no, no, yes, yes, and no. Even with the limited discovery, some poor drone at YouTube can now look forward to weeks of copying information onto Viacom-provided hard drives. ...

Keepping the "no"s, the "yes"s are:

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