Next stop - go to jail for a non-blocked free service

Read this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html, and imagine who else should be or should have been prosecuted.

Quotes

- "In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate"

- "Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code."

Who else contributed to this specific privacy code violation?

Producers of the video-equipment:

- the recorder company employees

- the tape/media company employess

- broadcasters - here I mean all the internet-providers transfering the IP-packets with the video - ISP employees

- YouTube employees

- all the viewer-software and viewer-machine employees

- human viewers

- anyone viewing pictures of the video

- owners of video-copies in any form on harddisks/flash/backup-media (not necessarily having seen the video)

Guess how it adds up if in-direct privacy code violators could be made responsible

- tape/media-plastics producers

- electricity producers

- Video and IP-packet standards and those who defined the standards

- reporters covering the news

- me - for commenting on it

What can you learn from this?

- You really has to watch out for - who you work for and what services and products your employer is delivering in Italy on your initiative

- YouTube will have to close down its Italian services to protect its employees

- All video service providers in Italy are gambling with their employees freedom

- Destroy all your Italian holiday video to avoid the risk of going to jail

- Don't record any future video in Italy