Streisand Effect update on BBC India Rape Documentary OK, here's what I've got now on this. According to my sources, BBC is asserting global copyright on this India rape expose documentary, and is reportedly exercising its usual control over its own streaming sources to limit its distribution outside BBC's normal venues.
However, copies are rapidly populating on YouTube. It's not clear to me at the moment if BBC is actively trying to take those down, but the government of India has asserted censorship rights over the video in India, and demanded that YT geo-block copies there, with which YT is apparently complying as per Indian law. Despite this, the video is widely available globally (including non-YT sources). Two other points: If the government of India wanted to minimize the viewing of this documentary, they blew it big time. Some of these copies have viewcounts currently paused at "301+" -- this suggests very high viewership that will be revealed when the automatic count pauses are lifted. Second: I'm seeing some commenters on my associated G+ threads -- apparently from India -- essentially saying "shut up and leave us alone to rape our women as we please." Yep, it's that bad. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
