Google now needs to hand over details of YouTube users’ viewing habits by a qualified judge presiding over a copyright violation case against the website. Viacom, the parent organization of MTV has filed a $1 billion court case against the video-sharing site gone March. It insisted that Google that owns YouTube must give up data about how members use the site, in conflict that the data would display that copyright-protected material was regularly been published and watched.

Judge Louis Stanton of the US District Court approved the request, asking Google to reveal details of each video clip uploaded to the site, along with viewers’ YouTube usernames and IP addresses. An IP address recognizes each individual computer connected to the internet however cannot be related to a name or address without the assistance of an internet service provider. YouTube usernames might further make out folks if people have signed up using their own names.

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