Earlier this month, YouTube was ordered to give Viacom copies of its user log records over the last few years, the situation thus causing quite an online privacy-oriented hype.

With regard to this subject, the news is that Viacom now wants view and upload records that were done by company insiders as well, and not just by people not taking part in the company’s structure.

The situation began about one year ago when Viacom filed charges against YouTube, saying that the popular website had infringed upon numerous copyrights it owned. Viacom went on to say that Google does very "little or nothing" for stopping the upload of illegal material on YouTube. However, things are not as black and white as the claimant says, as a significant number of videos has been removed by Google since the $1.6 billion website purchase was finalized.

Although Google officials declared that everything related to the website is being done in perfect accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Viacom feels differently and described the website as an "explosion of copyright infringement" online.

According to Viacom, more than 150,000 of its shows could be viewed on YouTube in April alone; among such shows, MTV Unplugged and South Park were mentioned. Web surfers have watched Viacom content for "an astounding 1.5 billion times," and now the company wants to know whether or not YouTube insiders viewed its clips as well.

Nothing can be said for sure about this one billion dollar case; however, baring in mind the fact that Viacom managed to persuade Judge Stanton to make the aforementioned decision, there are high chances for it to succeed again with this other request. Stay tuned as the case further develops.