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Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video

New submitter edanto writes "A young Irish man wrongly accused of jumping from a taxi without paying the fare has secured a judgement from an Irish court ordering the video removed from the entire Internet. Experts from Google, Youtube, Facebook, and others must tell the court in two weeks if this is technically possible. The thing is, the video is accurate, it is only a comment that wrongly identified Eoin McKeogh as the fare-jumper in the video that is inaccurate. It's not clear if the judge has made any orders about the comment."

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  1. Overstepping your jurisdiction much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stupid judge, you can't order that, you ignorant ninny...

    By the powers vested in me, by myself, I hereby order you (the ninny) to stop breathing now and forever. You may be using oxygen I'll need later in my life.
    It's only wasted on you.

    1. Re:Overstepping your jurisdiction much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now if that judge was located in the US, then he could have had it deleted from the entire Internet.

    2. Re:Overstepping your jurisdiction much? by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... Ireland has a crappy enough job market as it is, without punishing the companies who are there for something like this...

      Clearly - people can't even afford to pay their taxi fares.

    3. Re:Overstepping your jurisdiction much? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      I also don't plan on ever traveling to Internet Explorer.

    4. Re:Overstepping your jurisdiction much? by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps they could search for one on Bing?

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      Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
  2. Quick! by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you've got a Microsoft Surface, download the video from YouTube - pronto!

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    #DeleteChrome
    1. Re:Quick! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you've got a Microsoft Surface, download the video from YouTube - pronto!

      only one man is our last hope then

    2. Re:Quick! by RoboRay · · Score: 4, Funny

      (sound of crickets)

  3. Eoin McKeugh just became immortal. . . . by Salgak1 · · Score: 3, Funny
    . . . . .by GUARANTEEING that the video in question will be mirrored, and parodied, etc.

    Somebody obviously knows NOTHING about how the 'net works.. . This is, after all. . . . serious business..

  4. It's a complicated thing, but by fisted · · Score: 4, Funny

    technically it's not that difficult. There are engineers who know which screws to remove, where the hooks and claws sit, etc, in order to disassemble the Internet and pull out that video. It's a matter of cost, mainly, and while it is a daunting task already to dismantle the machine, it's even more difficult to properly put it back together in the end.
    I wouldn't be the one to risk that, tbh. What if you, say, forget a gear, or mismatch the pressure release valve?

  5. And The Answer Is: by ewhac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Experts from Google, Youtube, Facebook, and others must tell the court in two weeks if this is technically possible.

    No.

    This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions: Simpleton Edition.

    Schwab

  6. Re:clueless judge by Shimbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    There should be an authority that can prevent Slashdot from being trolled by a summary that seems to have no basis in the original story. We could call this hypothetical super-being an editor.