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YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox
An anonymous reader writes "Tech Crunch has an article about YouTube identifying and handing over a user's information after a request from Fox. 'Three weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television. That user, named ECOTtotal, is also alleged to have uploaded 12 episodes of The Simpsons, some quite old. Apparently Google and YouTube were willing and able to identify the owner of the username ECOTtotal, according to a report on InternetNews.com.'"
After all, it was 24, and on that show, unlike my actual experience in real counter-terrorism ops, torture always works.
Sad how much much more we resemble the former Soviet Union every day.
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Fox no longer possessed the ability to be the first to display the content to the general public.
RRRRRight. So let's say you see a guy get robbed in the street and can identify the robber. The police find out you witnessed the robbery and subpeona you to appear as a witness. Are you evil for giving up the identity of the robber?
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Ahem, there's a _client_ of yours, who pays your rent, who might have been sitting in the front of the bus while having a relatively dark complexion, (something being frowned upon by some part society) we (not the police nor the judge) want to know who the client is so we can annoy him and we'll tell him you told us his name...
That's more like it.
This will be their death.
Regardless of the content, If you cant post anonymously, why is anyone going to risk posting at all?
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