That's...hmm. I don't know enough about the case to have an educated opinion (does it really matter if the copyrighted videos are more popular than user-generated videos or is that just a smokescreen for getting their hands on the data?), but I can see Viacom's point. It's a slippery slope, as someone else mentioned and I hope the ruling is reversed, but the problem is that in a lot of ways we really do violate copyright laws. It's nice to think that everyone will let it slide, but that's not the reality.

Interesting case, and I hadn't heard about it so thanks for posting.