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:What copyright?

[Anonymous Coward]

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4/29 was an inside job!!!!11

[u2boy_nl]

The freeway collapse in San Francisco showed very thin concrete and poor adhesion, in my opinion.

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Re:Background on the crash

[RevAaron]

Remember there is no "right" to drive a car. It is a privilege granted by the state you live in, you need a license to drive a car.

Remember there is no "right" to life (unless you're a fetus). It is a privilege granted to you by the economic system you live in.

And unfortunately, for most folks (especially lower-income folks) that economic system requires driving. I don't doubt this guy could've found some job he could've walked to or biked to and made a lot less money at it. I don't know how NJ is laid out, but I don't think you'd be riding your bike along the highway to get to a job that paid more than $8/hr.

You're lucky you can ride your bike to work, work that presumably pays decently. I work at home, and am also lucky. But I can see people making these sorts of stupid judgement calls when their livlihood is at stake, or percieved to be so.

Re:Background on the crash

[RevAaron]

Note on your .sig:

Conservatism is a failed ideology which has joined communism in the trash heap of history.

Well conservatism (even radical conservatism) has always been a failed ideology. Throughout history it has been nothing but a looking backward; to tribalism, feudalism, monarchy, and various individual systems and ways of thought and doing things. Progress always wins out, for better or for worse.

"Communism" should be corrected to "Leninism." Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, and their ilk have beat this dead horse for a century, but there are many other aspirant ideologies which either self-ident or could be called "communism" that either have been tried or have been tried in some way and done OK (Spanish Civil War, say).