Media giant Viacom (VIA) won a legal victory over YouTube that set off fireworks across the Internet. The July 1 ruling gave Viacom access to records of what people watch on YouTube, which is owned by Google (GOOG) and is the most popular video site on the Web.

Viacom won a significant victory in their $1 billion copyright infringement case against Google/YouTube.  Google has been ordered to hand over terabytes of video search information that shows the details of every video ever played on YouTube.  However Google did dodge a huge bullet as Judge Louis Stanton denied Viacom’s request for source code to Google’s search engine.

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