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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.'"
Because Goatse guy isn't a multi-billion dollar corporation with squadrons of rabid lawyers waiting to strike.
At least, as far as I know he isn't.
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
"But you don't really think that copyright infringement and mugging share a common moral space, do you? Death penalty for speeders while we're at it?"
Copyright infringement and mugging share a common moral space in that they are both against the law.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
This comment was up to +5. It's come down to +3. That means there's at least two troll votes.
Troll does not mean "I don't agree with you" and using it as such is an abuse of moderation - not that the people "running" slashdot (into the ground) care any more, if ever they did.
Trolling is when you say something that you don't believe in order to elicit a desired response. I believe everything I said (the thing about the {RI,MP}AA lawyers was tongue-in-cheek but it contained a serious message) and not only that but it is also true. We're talking about a legal case here, thus we are talking about legal terminology.
The only question is, am I being downvoted by one of my serial downvoters, who is just following me around harassing me, or by an astroturfer, who saw my crack about the RIAA and MPAA and is trying to make my post less visible, or just by a random asshole who hates accuracy?
We may never know.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"