The decision that favors Viacom in the lawsuit against YouTube is clearly not going to win them a lot of friends. The YouTube community decided to fire back after a judge cleared the way for Viacom and granted them access to usernames, IP addresses and video history of the video site’s users.

With serious privacy issues surrounding the case, which concern most people - except for the judge maybe, who dismissed them as pure speculations – Viacom will have access to all user logs under the court order. Privacy advocates claim that this situation could open another page of the AOL fiasco chapter.

YouTube users reacted the only was they could, by posting a series of videos in response to the judge’s decision and against Viacom. If Google has no choice but to comply with the demands, users believe they can make a difference by calling for a boycott.

The users seem to be very little impressed by Viacom’s assurances that they will not ask for and will not obtain any personal identifiable information of any of the YouTube users. Viacom also said the personal identifiable information will be stripped from the data before it reaches them, adding that the data will only be used to prove their case against YouTube.

The problem is that nobody expected things to go this far, and things got even more shocking when Viacom also demanded for Google’s source code, an idea that, fortunately for Google, was rejected by the judge.

It is obvious that the YouTube community is not going to stand and watch, and the number of views on Viacom videos goes to prove it.

Information Week reported that YouTube users are currently working on signing a petition to demand the judge to reconsider the ruling, and limit Viacom’s access to videos that have broken copyright laws and “only include user data that is vital to Viacom’s legal pursuits.”