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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[idleprocess]

So, 24 and the Simpsons are on FOX. I have an antenna on my roof to get local channels. I've paid nothing to watch these shows.

So why is it a problem to provide a copy of something that was already given away for free?

I suppose advertising gets stripped but what the hell? Oh and thanks google for not being evil.

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[krotkruton]

It isn't that you took the person's comment in the way that he or she said it, it's that you failed to take the comment in the context that it was given. I didn't have much trouble understanding the person after reading the comments that led to it, but maybe that's just because what the person said related to my original post so I had a jump on knowing the train of thought. It seemed like you jumped into a thread and commented on one post without taking the context into consideration. Kinda like walking into a room just as someone is saying "so yeah, I had sex with my sister" and then telling them that incest is wrong and they need to get help, when that was actually just a punchline to a dirty joke.