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.'"

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u toob

[Neuropol]

did somebody ask me to bring the fucking rock? Because, ya know, I did. I brought the fucking rock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4aGXTHo7w

OT

[Anonymous Coward]

OT, anonymous, mod down, etc.

"There's no place like 127.0.0.1" makes no sense. "There's no place like localhost?"

Clue for you all: 127.0.0.1 != "home". Stop embarrassing yourselves. Try "There's no place like ~", for example.

You're welcome. Please send all profits from the "There's No Place Like ~" t-shirts to the EFF or similar organization that fights for basic freedom and rights.

Re:OT

[FunkyELF]

Clue for you all: 127.0.0.1 != "home". Stop embarrassing yourselves. Try "There's no place like ~", for example.

Actually, ~ != home either. ~ in my case is /home/FunkyELF/....I think what you're looking for is...

There's no place like ~/..

Re:OT

[vindimy]

there's no place like /usr// ...
or, there's no place like c:\documents and settings\\ ...
or, ctrl+home for the less concerned ...

Re:Google

[Anonymous Coward]

A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife.

Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?

Re:Google

[MightyYar]

Even the bible allows stealing bread to feed your family.