What remains to be seen is whether fleeting online anger gels into persistent antipathy against Viacom. A great many boycotts are launched, but few arouse enough passion to last and change corporate behavior or policy. Certainly, Viacom is unlikely to abandon its copyright claim against YouTube because of the complaints of YouTube users.
The probable outcome is that Google will provide Viacom with anonymized data, as Google has suggested, and that will be the end of it, at least until there's a ruling in Viacom's copyright lawsuit.
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