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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."
If every post on Slashdot were posted by the same person, then I'd certainly agree that "slashdot is nothing more than a den of fags who try any excuse to steal music/movies/etc."
However, such is not the case (fortunately!).
"Feel a glory in so rolling / on the human heart a stone" --E. A. Poe, "The Bells"
Think you're driving on public roads? Think again. It's estimated that 35% of public roads will be private within
the next 20 years.
Your rights to photograph (even with your own camera) will soon be seriously curtailed.
The enemy to personal freedoms isn't government -- its private corporations and intellectual property law.
Your masters are corporate.
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As the NJTA is the property of the people. Such should be public knowledge. But I'd expect this crud from a state like New Jersey.
Almost 90% of all my LJ phone posts were made while traveling through N.J. I don't know what it is about that miserable state that it is the only state out of half the nation I've driven through that is so piss-poor to drive through as to cause me to post in frustration.
DON'T EVER GET OF AN EXIT IN NEW JERSEY...JUST HOLD YOUR SHIT IN TILL YOU GET TO ANOTHER STATE (Jersey seems to think that having food/gas/etc signs for facilities over 5 miles away is acceptable for their highways system. You get off for a McDonald's and 45 minutes later get there only to find that the McDonald's closed at 9pm.
Nope...no doubt about it NEW JERSEY SUCKS
NJDOT has only 8 Turnpike cams published on their website and none of them is this one. Seems to be an inside job. Releasing something like this could be trouble for a NJDOT IT worker. It would seem they're building a case against the worker by bitching in public about "copyright" issues. When (not "if") they succeed, they'll be better able to coerce other government employees to maintain State Secrets. The mafia approach to government - get used to it. Meantime, like most censored material, it's plastered all over the net. Thanks, all you lowly plasterers! :)
You're a cock.
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