20th Century Fox served YouTube with a subpoena Wednesday demanding the Google-owned viral video site disclose the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire recent episodes of primetime series "24" and "The Simpsons."
The subpoena, which first came to light on the blog Google Watch, was granted by a judge in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after being filed by the News Corp.-owned studio on January 18. It is not yet known whether YouTube has complied with the request.
The subpoena reads, in part:
On or about January 8, 2007, Fox became aware that a subscriber ("the Subscriber") of YouTube Inc.s' Internet-based service uploaded pirated copies of the works onto YouTube, making it available for illegal viewing over the Internet to anyone who wishes to watch it. Fox has not authorized this distribution or display of the works. The subpoena request YouTube, Inc. to disclose information sufficient to identify the Subscriber so that Fox can stop this infringing activity.
Seems like Miles O'Brien doesn't get on with Milo. Thank God for Youtube. I think it really is worth the hundred trillion dollars that Google paid for it.
If you've been reading the site, Kiefer Sutherland appeared on the UK chatshow 'Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' to discuss '24' and his behind-the-scenes rock documentary 'I Trust You to Kill Me' following Rocco DeLuca.
I captured a digital stream so I uploaded it to Youtube, which has a ten minute limit for clips so I split it into two parts:
The second part has a clip of him jumping into that Christmas tree in that hotel in London.
Remember in the first season all the goodies used Apple Macs and the baddies used PCs? Before they switched to KDE and Cisco Security Response Centers? This is obviously payback.
Fox will sell access to episodes of "24" and "Prison Break" for six to seven days after the initial broadcast for 99 cents.
They're not making episodes available on iTunes - yet - so it's basically Tivo that you have to pay for. The service will launch later this year, missing the season five premiere hours.
Apparently in the US the other night during the Chicago White Sox vs Houston Astros baseball game, Fox showed the first promo trailer for season five of '24'.
It's 30 seconds long and provides just the tiniest inkling of what's going to be happening in '24' this January.
Here's the trailer for download in 7mb .mpg format, and here's some screengrabs:
Looks like Jack goes hiking, walks up a hill to get a mobile phone signal, makes a car crash by looking at it and holds up a bank whilst filming hostages. Fantastic stuff.
Following Jack Bauer's twoother attempts at advertising Japanese health snack food Calorie Mate free singles dating sites and find singles dating - Service Mamboo.com , the third advert in the series has hit the internet. This time Jack hijacks a van to take him to the Tokyo Metropolitan government building where some terrorism is going down. Thanks to Japundit for the link.