New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video

eldavojohn writes "The New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has sued YouTube and a number of other video sites for showing footage of a car crash that happened on the turnpike and was, therefore, property of the turnpike. The NJTA requested the footage be removed under the DMCA — which YouTube complied with — unfortunately, the video was copied to several other sites. The NJTA still seems to be targeting YouTube since YouTube 'did not try to prevent the very same video from being uploaded again by users immediately after it was purportedly removed.' We'll have to watch this closely and see if, even after you take down material violating the DMCA, you are at fault to any extent for people who already copied said material."

Comments

Re:How?!

[gardyloo]

Put sieves with the right-shaped holes in the tubes. Empty periodically. Easy.

Re:Video link

[superpulpsicle]

According to the complaint, the offending video has been viewed 19,833 times on YouTube, 189,037 times on LiveLeak.com and 6,933 times on break.com as of May 21. Less than 24 hours later, on May 22, the videos had been viewed 24,346 times, 213,295 times and 16,812 times, respectively. Well I guess by creating this lawsuit, the video will now be unofficially available all across the web and increase the views to 1,194,345,431,456,345,223 times.

Re:video of the crash

[Anonymous Coward]

The Google Ads for airbags beneath the video seem a bit tasteless!

Re:Video link

[TheoMurpse]

You underestimate the power of the internet; I think the video will be viewed 09,F91,102,9D7,4E3,5BD,841,56C,563,568,8C0 times.