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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."
Bill Clinton gave us both Hillary and the DMCA.
Ouch.
Is this the level of comments nowadays?
These days? It has been like for quite some time, certainly over a decade. This actually looks better than normal, so far there is very little spam.
In this specific case, I suspect it was a timelord trying to warn us against the consequences of the DMCA. But if you really want to, you could try to visit the time traveller's convention.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Is this the level of comments nowadays?
Sadly yes, the comments are barely worth reading any more
Something something Natalie Portman's Hot Grits :-P
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I'm still waiting for season 10 to appear. Forever it seems.
BBC is exceptionally good at wasting money. What way to better waste money than to go to the ends of the earth trying to prosecute someone who is effectively adding to hype about your show. What are they even going to do when they find out who the leaker is, can't really do much beyond fire them if they're here in the UK. Civil damages? 1p would more than cover it.
AKA get a fucking life BBC and stop wasting public money.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
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Am I the only one wondering why a British TV series was having production work done in the US?
So it's owned by the conservative government and is simultaneously liberal propaganda? That's.... interesting.
You mean like "IMG_ l563.TRIM.MOV"?
There's a difference between pirated footage and stolen production footage. Anyone who tries to leak the latter is just asking for the full weight of law enforcement.
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.
Maybe that is what he/she meant
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.
So, the BBC is asking Microsoft to do a deep-dive search across ALL OneDrive user accounts looking for a single file?
BS
No. They want Microsoft to identify who posted the linked file: see the TF article.
Zip up IMG_I563.TRIM.MOV into THeseAreNotBoobies.zip, encrypt it into THeseAreNotBoobies.zip.aes and THEN copy it up to the cloud.
Perhaps you are just old.
Does it really matter? Some jokes may get old, some don't. It is just how they are presented, not what they are.
Then how do you share it? If I download a video and what actually comes through is a zip or exe, I delete it. (I don't see this problem as much anymore but maybe I am using better indexers.)
Ok, I admit it, I did it.
Feminism and other political nonsense have also infected the show. I hate when politics infect a show. I groan every time I get slapped in the face with political correctness, feminism, etc. It destroys the show.
Yet another idiot conflates trademark with copyright.
Don't you morons ever get tired of demonstrating your legal ignorance?
... you wouldn't download a car, would you? By this point, I'm convinced most of us would.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
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.
People screw up all the time. Most particularly, people think that their info in the "cloud" is private all the time when it isn't.
How dare you insinuate I don't know the law! I will sue you for embezzlement!
Don't forget nostalgia blinders. The old joke or idea may just trigger an emotion of a happy time for you or a happy time within a painful time.
If you go to a concert of a long time loved musical band, and you find their take of that popular song you once loved is different. Is now somehow different, you just don't get the same emotional response then from the recording.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
A company has something stolen from it. They traces it to a storage locker, proves to a judge it is in the storage locker, and requests information on the owner so they can purse legal action. This is all this case is. The fact the storage locker is digital and the goods are digital doesn't matter.
Except the original is still there.... The deprivation was not of the physical product, but the exclusivity of the product. Don't equate piracy to theft. They are inherently different.... I thought this was made clear 20 years ago. Stop spreading lies and misinformation.
...and I have to browse 0/-1 to find some of the really good, insightful ones. Still nothing near as shitty as Ars or reddit.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
a copy of the leaked file, titled "IMG_ l563.TRIM.MOV.
They should be looking for an Apple user.
Feminism: the belief that women should be treated equal to men.
I'm pretty sure you just destroyed his Slashdot.
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.
They are different on some level, but not when you evaluate ( a crime has been committed, There is a normal process for tracking down the perpetrator). It really doesn't make a difference if the crime is copy right violation, theft, murder, speeding or public intoxication, the laws of evidence and proof are much the same. The only real difference is weather it is a capital crime ( aka punishable by the government and jail) or a civil crime ( aka I can sue you for money but you won't go to jail). I'd have to do some more investigation to see if search warrants are issued for civil crimes, i don't think they are, because at least in this country to my understanding they are issued to a public prosecutor and their isn't one in a civil suit.
âoeTolerance applies only to persons, but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but never to persons.
I'm not sure I know the answer, Does someone , if the case is purely civil, like a divorce, can I person get a search warrant for private property? I know they can get a subpoena for bank records, this seems to fall somewhere in between.
âoeTolerance applies only to persons, but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but never to persons.
EX-TER-MIN-ATE!
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Just look at their envolvement with Castro and FARC. Always humping arround ammo or wounded gorillas. Damn burros.
No, modern Feminism is just Chauvinism flipped around. It has nothing to do with equality.
As for the article, the Dread Pirate should just invoke the Right to be Forgotten, which the UK insists is a Fundamental Human Right.
Yes, in theory Femanism is about men and women being equal.
In practice a lot of femanists want to be more equal than men. As in equal in all aspects, except where things scew towards favoring women.
There is also a rather large group of "Femanists" that want revenge equalism. These feel that since men have had it good for so long, now women should get an advantage in everything over men.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
That's pretty much taking his words and warping them to mean what you want them to. If there's an active feud between the two of you, I'll understand... but hear me out...
His point is clear. When a popular [insert medium here] (think.. TV show, music, movies) shoves ANY propaganda in your face when it didn't typically use to, people generally aren't very accepting of it. Unless it's Family Guy, of course.
I never got the impression that he hated women or wanted to see them mistreated/degraded on TV.
I tend to rant.
Rather, you might restate the parent's position back to them to assist in the discourse.
Perhaps you might ask the parent to restate their position instead. Did you think about doing that? Why haven't you considered that the parent's choice of phrasing reflects upon them quite clearly?
YuriKlastalov BTFO. How will he ever recover?
Or it could be the show sucks! Jesus christ candy ass it's absolutely possible that shows from 50 years can be better than show you see today. Just because something is new does not make it better.
Showed the show to my wife. She was never a fan. Showed her the classic episodes (Pertwee/Baker) and the new episodes with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. She did not like the new episodes. She much preferred the older ones.
I mean, how could it NOT be The Master.
He's had it out for The Doctor for a long time.
Or should I say, she's had it out for her.
Um.
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Why is this modded up? Pretty sure you're trolling here.
But in case you really didn't get the OP:
"Feminism" used to mean "equality".
"Feminism" today tends to refer to "Third Wave Feminism", which is looking less and less interested in equality. For citations, have you not been paying attention for the last 4 or 5 years?
It's similar to how "Diversity" in the U.S.A. this decade is more and more starting to mean "Fuck White People".
Summed up, the intent is fine. The execution.....is leaving a lot to be desired.
No, feminism still means equality. Misandry means hatred of men or promotion of women above men, and I won't disagree... some people are guilty of this. Diversity still means "diversity"; if a company is 100% black, hiring a white person would still be "diversity" in that company. The words still mean the same thing; the thing that has changed the most is some people are resisting the changes now that they are a little closer to realization than they once were.
I am a white male; I am pro feminism and diversity. I am still against misandry and racism against white people - but those are two completely different things and you can't really accuse the BBC of either of those things.
I can't speak for everyone, but I imagine a large number of anti "female doctor" are at least a little sexist. Now, if the show starts up and it is bashing men; I will apologise and join in the criticism- until then, nothing wrong has been done hiring a woman.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
for civil you cannot get a search warrant - but you can get a subpoena and the other side is supposed to produce the data asked for
nothing to see here - move along
it's not a crime if it's civil - it's an infringement of rights
nothing to see here - move along
"Political Correctness (aka, Political Censorship), is fascism pretending to be Manners."
-- George Carlin
"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."
In my mid-30's I can already tell you the slippery slope is real. We compromise one small thing at a time, become comfortable with the change as it becomes the new norm and then the next step feels like a small change from normal. In some ways it is very real and threatening. You look at personal liberties, privacy and their extreme decline. You look at the extreme positions we pretended were true because we agreed with their overall message and realize that society actually believes those things. They really think there are neo-nazi's on every block just waiting to beat them if they are gay or black and women think there are rapists around every corner.
As a child in a small town in backwater Illinois people thought racism was bad and didn't much care what people did in the privacy of their own bedrooms, my grandparents exposed me to a plethora of programming with this as the heart of it's message showing over and over again the closed minded racist antagonist discriminating against the different. People made jokes and slurs, especially in mixed groups and the same guy they called a jew bastard in jest and in anger they'd literally fight and bleed for the same as their other friends. Today that is a sacred right reserved for comedians and you are told these people are evil racists with hate in their heart on par with Nazi's. What is worse is that when someone with warmth and friendliness in their heart, possibly even a deep grained respect for the historical traditions of native culture calls someone an "injun" and you call them out as evil and attack them telling them they are racist even if they don't know it... well that sort of attack is exactly what WILL lead to thousands of Klan members and neo-nazis.
In the US you are allowed to openly hate men if they are white just for being white and men who grew up in the same economic conditions with the same education, the same broken home, the same drugs in the streets. You can discriminate against them if equally qualified for employment or education. We hire staff in publicly traded companies dedicated to making sure that too many of them aren't too successful. Why? Because straight white men are the scapegoats, they have no real connection to troubles of the past, nor does the situation of any other group in the present have any connection to those who were troubled int he past but when anything doesn't go your way we can blame them. Currently we are spreading a widescale eugenics effort by telling white women they are racist if they don't sleep with black men and spreading the idea they all have giant penises alongside spreading the idea that being cuckolded by black men is something sexy. Why ship people off to gas chambers when you can deny them education, employment, and encourage widespread social acceptance of breeding them out? Either way, you've got the populace good with hate and you can prop up your dictatorship on it just like hitler and the nazi party.
I love that the AC accuses you of trolling, then pulls like three or four trolls into one post. Very classy. Good luck with these guys; they really believe that white men are totally oppressed by the (((liberals))). They see any attempt to right centuries of racism and sexism as some sort of personal slight against them, just because they have to compete on an almost level playing field.
Feminism is not the belief that women should be treated equal to men. It is a term which defines itself as the movement for gender equality with a carefully chosen name from a group obsessed with words at the time, the name begs the question and equates promoting the interests of women as the same thing as gender equality.
Of course the movement runs into a bit of trouble in that most women have never wanted to be the browbeating asshole careerman or CEO they think women should be and most of the culture they fight against and propose as the evil "patriarchy" is actually the result of the matriarchy. So now the effort is largely about convincing women to not bond with or raise their children and to encourage brainwashing children to try to turn all our daughters into people who think this sort of lowlife bottom-dweller oppressor is someone to idolize.
Of course it is very hard to explain how the evil patriarchy didn't lock them all in mental asylums and begin executing them with their portrayal of the extreme situations where husbands were abusive as if they were commonly held and accepted events.
The 'pirates rate this worthy of downloading' stamp of approval. Sure.
Disclaimer: I haven't watched TV for over ten years.
Requiem for the American Dream
I'm sure our secret leaders have our best interests at heart =)
Requiem for the American Dream
As we know, fundamental human rights are opt-in via longwinded legal process. Probably not what <deity> had in mind.
Requiem for the American Dream
Balderdash.
Then as you get older they become the same old thing over and over again.
By the time you reach your 50's and 60's such media is considered threatening to your way of life.
Pick one. Either it's always been the same old shit or it's new and scary and threatening to your old way of life.
Feminism and other political nonsense have also infected the show. I hate when politics infect a show. I groan every time I get slapped in the face with political correctness, feminism, etc. It destroys the show.
Feminism: the belief that women should be treated equal to men.
So you're saying if a woman is treated equal to a man on a show it destroys the show? A show is only worth watching if women are treated like crap? OK... whatever floats your boat.
Feminism half a century ago was like that. "Feminism" today is a farce. It's so bad they had to retcon the whole thing and label feminism as "First Wave" feminism. Feminists of that era widely criticize and deride modern "Third Wave" "feminism" because it's lost the plot so badly. (With social media and the craziness it fuels, are we now in "Fourth Wave" "feminism"?)
The DMCA has a number of provisions.
And this one is just a matter of basic fairness. If you want the content owner to sue the real pirate (vs the ISP), then you need to them who that is.
IDK. It might affect your ability to get an injunction in future cases. And, eventually, you'll end up with an adverse possession problem (it's not limited to real property).
The only real difference is weather it is a capital crime ( aka punishable by the government and jail) or a civil crime ( aka I can sue you for money but you won't go to jail).
By "capital," you actually mean, "criminal." In the U.S., "capital" crimes are those that are punishable by death.
There is no such thing as a, "civil crime" in the U.S. All crimes are criminal, and most, and perhaps all, monetary-only disputes are civil.
Thank you. You understand it correctly. Slashdot need more people like you. Hugs~
Your characterization is accurate that popular tropes in film, TV, and literature lose novelty and impact as one matures. Experience results in familiarity which results in decreasing interest. This is true across generations.
However, what has changed over the past few generations is increased emphasis on younger and younger audiences. There was a time not long ago when a significant fraction of commercial film, TV, and literature was aimed at adults. This is a genuine cultural shift, and not just old people saying "that's been done before." Today, more producers pitch "reboots" or unabashed remakes with the explicit strategy that it can be sold as an original experience to children and teenagers.
The end result is artistic stagnation.
Ancient alien lizard people leaders without a doubt. I'm pretty sure I saw them on doctor who so they must be real.
Do you know what happens if you embrace rather than argue with those who say "All lives matter" in response to the "black lives matter" issue? Suddenly your message resonates rather than alienates the majority of people in this country and you have an unstoppable united front on the issue of police militarizing and killing civilians without consequence. Solving that issue for "all lives" also solves it for those who happen to have a bit more resistance to a sun burn. Instead our leaders want to stir it up, make the issue about an emotional issue of race and keep people divided while they continue to militarize our police and drive us slowly toward more and more of a police state.
It would be so fitting if the US can't disclose who did it because of European privacy laws.
Fox sends them a wav file. It's Nelson from the Simpsons saying - Ha Ha.
Fair statement. Perhaps, for the enlightenment of the original poster you could provide some points that reveal how you believe the woman in the role adds to the storyline.
- Not breaking the lore, +1
- Excellent actor/actress making the show more watchable, +1.