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Last Modified: 04 Jul 2008
By: Harry Fawcett

YouTube owner Google is ordered to hand over personal data about everyone who has ever used the site in a US court case.

If you're one of the millions of people who have watched a clip on YouTube, this means you.

The information includes IP addresses, the address of your computer, and also email addresses.

Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, brought the court case, claiming Google encourages copyright infringement through the site.

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