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YouTube Gets Slammed for Video Showing British Mom’s Gang Rape
LONDON — YouTube is facing criticism for making it too easy for people to upload violent or sexually explicit content to the Internet after a 25-year-old mother was filmed while being raped.
A three-minute video showing the mother sexually assaulted by three boys after her drink had been spiked was uploaded soon after the incident, which took place in November.
In the clip, which was filmed with a mobile phone, the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.
The mother, from South London, told The Sun that she had been put through the ordeal after drinking champagne that had been spiked with a date-rape drug.
“Three boys aged 14 to 16 did it and it was set up by two girls,” she said. “They came round with a neighbor I trusted and I had no problems with them coming in for a while.”
She said that she opened a bottle of champagne “to be social” and that within seconds of having a glass, she began to feel strange.
A video of the episode was later placed on YouTube, but the clip was quickly taken down after a viewer complained about its graphic nature. It is understood to have been seen 600 times.
“Putting (the video) on the internet was an abomination,” the mother said. “I was raped on film, and you could hear my daughter and 4-year-old son crying. I cannot understand how any Web site could show such a thing.”
A YouTube spokesman said that the site’s rules prohibited content such as pornography and gratuitous violence from being uploaded. When people see content they think is inappropriate, he said, they can flag it and it will be reviewed.
“If the content breaks our terms, then we remove it, and if a user repeatedly breaks the rules we disable their account,” the spokesman said.
A source close to YouTube said it was impossible for the site to review every video that was posted because more than 10 hours of content is uploaded every minute.
The source added that trained staff acted quickly to take down inappropriate content when it was flagged.
Since the mother came forward last month, the Metropolitan Police have begun an investigation into the incident and three teenagers — two aged 16 and one aged 14 — have so far been questioned.
YouTube has said that it cooperates with police when material relevant to an investigation is posted on the site.
Under UK law, sites that host videos posted by third parties must act “expeditiously” to disable access to them in the event of a complaint in order to avoid any liability that may result from the content appearing.
Lawyers said that in this case, there may be liability that would stem from the publication of obscene material.
“It is extremely difficult for YouTube to control this kind of content because in this instance — where you have a video that may depict a crime — there’s no technical measure the site can apply that will prevent it being posted in the first place,” said Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons.
“The only option would be for them to review every video before it is posted and that is unrealistic. What sites like YouTube need is a good reporting mechanism which enables content to be flagged to the site once it has been posted, and YouTube operates well in this sense.”
It is not the first time YouTube has been used as a forum for posting violent content.
Last month, a set of videos appeared on the site which showed students from Hitchin Boys’ School, in Hertfordshire, apparently fighting with each other while bystanders looked on and gave them encouragement.
The footage has since been removed.
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TMZ has learned that Mike and buddy Jennifer Capriati (yes, that Jennifer Capriati) went to the Van Halen concert last week. After the show, the two headed back to Les Deux — which Malin co-owns. We’re told Malin went onto the roof to adjust some Christmas decorations when he misstepped — and his leg went through a skylight. Jump! We’re told he did not fall all the way through, and the two were laughing hysterically about the incident. Jennifer apparently “rescued” him by pulling him back onto the roof … using her strong backhand!
Jennifer Capriati also is slated to participate in the Juliette Falls Golf & Spa Community Celebrity Pro-Am on Saturday, November 10.
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New Yankee Stadium & 2008 Yankees Schedule
The final regular-season game at Yankee Stadium will be Sept. 21 against Baltimore, and New York is raising prices for its best box seats by $100 to $250.
The Yankees released their 2008 schedule and ticket prices on Monday for the last season in The House That Ruth Built, which opened in 1923. The team plans to move in 2009 into a new ballpark being built across the street in the Bronx.
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Google just released their trends in 2007 zeitgeist, this on the heels of Yahoo’s Buzz and search trends, along with Ask’s search trends.
Google Fastest Rising (U.S.)
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Google Fastest Rising (global)
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10. club penguin
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Led Zeppelin Reunion
Stars Arrive for Led Zeppelin Reunion
Here in London, the news of Led Zeppelin’s impending reunion show Monday night is literally the talk of the town.
The Zepp get-together is actually part of a monster concert in memory of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun.
Other guests expected at the main show on Monday night include ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, as well as possible surprise appearances by the other Stones including Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood.
Foreigner, Mick Jones’ hit-laden group of the 1970s and ’80s, is also scheduled to appear. So is Paolo Nutini, the best-kept secret on the current Atlantic Records, the only successful division of ailing Warner Music Group.
But the big doings might come at the after-show party, where Atlantic soul stars from America are set to let loose and show what Ertegun, Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin really made into legends. They include “Soul Man” Sam Moore, Percy Sledge, Ben E. King and Solomon Burke. Moore will solo and play at least one duet with Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers.
The show, set for the O2 Arena in southeast London, was postponed from Nov. 26 because Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page fractured a finger.
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Michael Vick Sentenced to 23 Months in Jail
Michael Vick was sentenced to prison Monday for running a dogfighting operation and will stay there longer than two co-defendants, up to 23 months, because he lied about his involvement when he was supposed to be coming clean to the judge who would decide his fate.
The disgraced NFL star received a harsher sentence than the others in the federal conspiracy case because of “less than truthful” statements about killing pit bulls.
Vick said he accepted responsibility for his actions, but U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson said he wasn’t so sure.
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CompUSA Going Out of Business
So we’ve heard enough banter about CompUSA being on its last legs and possibly shuttering completely after closing more than half the chain’s stores earlier this year. Well, chalk this up to rumor (in fact, rumor with prejudice if you must), but we’re privy to a high-level internal email competitor Best Buy recently circulated which claims to have it on authority (but not “verified”) that CompUSA’s holiday revenue is half what it was last year (which, as commenter Hans points out, might have to do with those store closures), store-restocking shipments are not being scheduled past February, and additional liquidators are being called in to help manage closure of the 103 remaining stores. Sure, it could be a sneaky misinformation campaign — or it could be the truth. We gave CompUSA a ring, and their PR team has yet to respond to the claim; but for what it’s worth, if we weren’t already hearing this kind of thing elsewhere (or didn’t believe it plausible) we wouldn’t waste your time.
Via Engadget
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Polaroid Ultra Compact 7 Megapixel Digital Camera: Polaroid t737
Wassup, Polaroid T737? I suppose you think you’re pretty hot mustard there, with your—your seven megapixels and your 16mb of memory built-in. “Ooh, look at me, I’ve got image stabilization, I’m super cool, no one’s as cool as I am, I’m the coolest thing since… like, whatever.”
Well, you know what? Whatever!
I mean, okay, maybe you do have 3x optical zoom. And maybe you can expand your memory with SD cards. But you know what? You aren’t the only camera on earth that has that stuff, okay? Okay?
You think that’s the biggest LCD I’ve ever seen? Three inches? I mean. I mean, that’s pretty big, but I seen bigger ones.
So what makes you think you can go around all like that, like you stylin? What’s this red diamond business, is that your look now? That your little—your own little, like look? Am I supposed to like that? Is that supposed to appeal to me? Like, what, plain old silver or black or whatever isn’t good enough for you? You think you’re better than that? You think you’re just the most perfect little piggy at the top of the ham-heap, then, is that it?
Well let me tell you something, T737, ‘cause it’s time somebody did! I wanna tell you—I mean, I just wanna say that—I mean—
Man, T737, I just wish I was you sometimes.
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