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BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com)
Last month, the BBC headed to court to track down the person who leaked an incomplete scene featuring Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. New court documents suggest that the British broadcaster has yet to find the perpetrator, and is hoping Microsoft can help. At a federal court in Washington, the BBC requested a DMCA subpoena targeted at a OneDriver user who shared the infringing material online late June. TorrentFreak reports: In an effort to track down the source of the leak the BBC has taken the matter to the U.S. courts. Last month it obtained a DMCA subpoena from a California federal court, ordering the forum tool Tapatalk to identify the source of an infringing post. Whether this resulted in any useful information is unknown, but a few days ago it became clear that BBC is still investigating the matter. In a separate effort, BBC Studios have filed a request for a DMCA subpoena at a Federal court in Washington. This time it's directed at Microsoft. According to the BBC, a user of Microsoft's OneDrive stored and shared a copy of the leaked file, titled "IMG_ l563.TRIM.MOV."
"The infringing material includes, without limitation, an unauthorized copy of copyrighted video content from Season 11, Episode 1 of Doctor Who, for which BBC Worldwide Limited t/a BBC Studios (Distribution) is the exclusive licensee," the BBC writes. According to the BBC, the footage in question was stolen from the studio. Through the subpoena, the company hopes to find out more about the source of this leak, to prevent similar situations going forward. It asks Microsoft to hand over any relevant information that can help to identify the account holder who uploaded the video, which was added to OneDrive back in June. This includes "any name, account name, address, telephone number, email address, birth date, profile photo, device information, browser information, location information, information from others (e.g., Facebook or Google+) and time posted."
"The infringing material includes, without limitation, an unauthorized copy of copyrighted video content from Season 11, Episode 1 of Doctor Who, for which BBC Worldwide Limited t/a BBC Studios (Distribution) is the exclusive licensee," the BBC writes. According to the BBC, the footage in question was stolen from the studio. Through the subpoena, the company hopes to find out more about the source of this leak, to prevent similar situations going forward. It asks Microsoft to hand over any relevant information that can help to identify the account holder who uploaded the video, which was added to OneDrive back in June. This includes "any name, account name, address, telephone number, email address, birth date, profile photo, device information, browser information, location information, information from others (e.g., Facebook or Google+) and time posted."
Perhaps you are just old.
When you are young the tropes and ideas whatever they are are new and novel to you. So they are interesting new ideas no matter how old they are. Then as you get older they become the same old thing over and over again.
The TV Shows/Movies/Music when you were the ages of 8-18 just isn't as good anymore with a noticeable decline seeming to happen at ages 20-25
By the time you reach your 50's and 60's such media is considered threatening to your way of life.
Before the age of 8 or so, your understanding on what is happening in media and arts is rather limited.
By the age of 8 or so your brain has developed to a point where you can understand abstract concepts and realize the meaning behind the art form. During the next decade you can absorb and comprehend such stories and topic, Until early adulthood. After that these things are becoming repetitive and tiresome.
Your viewing of such media declines because it reward is lessen, and other responsibility take president. Then as you get near retirement age, your responsibilities decline, and then are exposed to such media again nearly a half a century later you find that the same-old actually had changed and is promoting a life style and culture that you are not comfortable with and take it as a threatening message.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I would hope that no one would be dumb enough to leak something on a public file sharing platform like dropbox/onedrive/etc without having taken many precautions to insure the account was registered and uploaded to with extreme anonymity. BBC is most likely aware that this is going to be a dead-end, and is just satisfying their legal requirement of "defense of their protected works" so as not to weaken the protections granted to them under copyright. (if you don't use the legal defenses granted to you, even on small things you don't care much about, they tend to be less effective down the road when you really do need to exercise them) This is why companied prefer to license things for $1/yr instead of just "not going after someone whose use they don't care about or mind". If anything, it's publicity, and as long as they don't actually identify and go after any individuals, it'll be mostly beneficial publicity, even if it appears to be negative.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Why do you automatically assume that a female doctor added to the show was there to be politically correct? ..., Warrior, Resentful, Vengeful, Goofball, and Unsure.
I mean we had only two words from her official debut. In terms of narrative purposes We already had 12 (or is it 13) Changes in actors that bring a different take to the character the Doctor.
Grumpy, Hobo, Super Spy, Bohemian, Jock, Egotist, Strategist,
Lately narrative can write Female Hero's who are not so stereotypical and more general human. Where the gender is who they are, but not what guides the stories.
Even a decade ago, it would had been politically correct to make a female doctor. But I doubt they would had been able to write a good one, with companions such as Rose and Martha showing the pitfalls in popular narrative of the time. However I think they are getting much better now, and can keep a compelling narrative with a female doctor now.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It's sad that they didn't think a show about a woman TimeLord would be good enough to stand on its own. Instead, they had to transgender the Doctor into a woman to try to keep the old fans plus the news ones that would be thrilled with this.
I don't think anyone is saying the mere presence of a woman is political and subversive but it says a lot about you that you think that is the issue.
I enjoy Blindspot, Buffy, Dollhouse, Alias, Fringe, the 100 etc. Most shows nowadays have a strong female lead.
If it were not done for political reasons, why do it now? Why wasn't it done between 2005 and 2012?
Why not do it now? Why is 2005-2012 somehow better than now? There is nothing in Dr. Who lore which says a Time Lord male cannot regenerate into a female (in fact, quite the opposite given The Master/Missy). So...aside from her being a woman, exactly what problem do you have with this?
Did you miss the cultural shift where the public widely reject the "progressive" ideology of the elite?
Casting actresses in a show is a "progressive ideology of the elite"? Perhaps in the 1700s, but it hasn't been for quite some time. You should look into making the leap into the 20th century. Being only 100 years behind the rest of us seems as if it would be an improvement for you.
I don't have dog in this fight, I listen to the Dr Who stuff when I have time...
However, I noticed that you constructed a nice straw man there. I wanted to stop by and admire the artistry involved in the simply ignorant and intentional misreading and misrepresentation of an opinion.
Like poo flung on a wall, it is awesome in it's own destructive simplicity.
Rather, you might restate the parent's position back to them to assist in the discourse.
"Did you mean that you feel that women are being shoehorned into a plot where they do not necessarily fit? In fact, it may cause a loss of continuity and flow of the temperament of the show when the protagonist is put in a gender reversed scenario?"
The scenario as presented above is an argument. It is provable that the BBC wants to provide propagandist support whenever possible to POC and women, it is one of their stated goals. Therefore, the argument is, "Is this good for the art?" or "Does reflect a loss of creativity caused by an echo chamber of political rhetoric?"
I believe the parent intends to argue that it does impact the art in a negative fashion and causes a loss of authenticity to the brand.