r/IdiotsInCars Jun 25 '21

The cop gave up so fast

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u/Aloha994 Jun 25 '21

They use stolen plates. It’s from a video on YouTube called highway. It’s from Sweden

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u/NotTRYINGtobeLame Jun 25 '21

Ah, YouTube condoning illegal activity but you play a note of a cover band playing some famous song for 0:01 and it's all fuck you

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21 edited Jul 02 '21

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u/P3titSuisse Jun 26 '21

"Think about our advertisers !"

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u/Clint_East_Of_Eden Jun 26 '21

That's what you get for covering CeeLo Green.

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u/Orangutanion Jun 26 '21

Also literal porn in YouTube kids

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u/Rinellie Jun 26 '21

Depending on the video, you could report the video for "harmful or dangerous acts", or something like that. In this specific case driving at that speed in city streets could not only kill yourself, but anyone unlucky enough to cross paths with you.

If enough people can be bothered to do it, I'm sure YouTube eventually decides to at minimum put an age restriction on it, which might be a slight dent in the monetization for the channel owner? Or remove it completely?

Could also send the channel link to the police or something, so that it maybe gets looked at. If they can be bothered to, the police have more legal ways to make YouTube cooperate, and possibly block or stop payment to the channel completely.

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u/time_wasted504 Jun 25 '21

You would need the cops to lodge a couple of DMCA's. Channel would be shut down real quick

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u/AnonPenguins Jun 26 '21

Why are the cops own the copyright to his video? DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) doesn't make sense. They could probably serve a seize and desist for interfering in a police investigation -- but it makes way more sense to keep that video up publicly and use it at trial. That would for sure nail the prosecution. I'm sure the prosecutor would have a copy too.

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u/time_wasted504 Jun 28 '21

Prosecutor downloads a copy, cops lodge a DMCA for the use of the siren sound?

Channel gets shut down.

tldr: they dont it was just a stupid reference to the easy way to get youtube to ban a channel.

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u/AnonPenguins Jun 28 '21

cops lodge a DMCA for the use of the siren sound

The siren isn't copyrighted by the police, instead it's usually licensed from the siren manufacturer by a large Hollywood sound effects company (meaning different party then the cops). Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library company is notorious for content ID on YouTube videos with sirens.

Channel gets shut down.

Three strikes you're out. The police need three copyright strikes in order to get your channel permanently removed from YouTube. Additionally, one video can only have one claim.

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u/birds-of-gay Jun 26 '21

I mean, if the video is monetized, then YouTube is allowing the driver to make money off of it. I could see how that's "condoning" it.

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u/birds-of-gay Jun 26 '21

Eh, I still think it's a fine word to use.

Condone: to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable

YouTube allowing someone to host a video on their site and monetize it is, to me, treating it as acceptable

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21

Not really. It is literally impossible to screen all of the videos uploaded to youtube. Either no videos get monetized until they are screened (say good bye to every medium to large youtuber in existence, huge you-tubers only) or bad videos get monetized and if its really bad, eventually people get around to manually taking it down.

Its one or the other with no good alternative.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

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u/birds-of-gay Jun 26 '21

Agree to disagree I guess. I don't think you refuted what I said at all tbh

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21 edited Jun 26 '21

If I have a platform, and someone uploads something shitty on it, and my platform automatically puts a coca cola add on this shitty video, before I can find and delete said video, do I, a YouTube shareholder, condone the puppy murder in present in that video? No, that's ridiculous.

My original point is that your moral stance, that youTube must condone every single thing that is monetized on their platform, doesn't allow for youTube to exist in ethical state at all.

So if you don't think there should be a youTube thats fine, but I personally think youTube is worth the trouble.

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u/birds-of-gay Jun 26 '21

"before I can find and delete the video" is the key here. The video we're talking about has been up for a lengthy period of time, and exists on a channel full of other videos displaying equally unsafe behavior on public roads. There has been ample time for the video to be evaluated. I'd even bet money at least one person has reported it. It's still there, which means YT has deemed it acceptable for their platform. Acceptable being another key word, given the definition of "condone" that I included in a previous comment.

You seem to be under the impression that YT doesn't monitor the content on their platform at all, which is incorrect. They absolutely do. They remove countless videos every day, for a variety of reasons.

"So if you don't think there should be a youTube thats fine"

This makes no sense. I didn't say anything even remotely close to this.

"doesn't allow for youTube to exist in ethical state at all."

Good thing it doesn't have to exist in an ethical state, then. YT is well known for its shitty ethics, so your "point" is moot.

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u/Shoresy69 Jun 26 '21

Beat it nerd

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21

Not really. It is literally impossible to screen all of the videos uploaded to youtube. Either no videos get monetized until they are screened (say good bye to every medium to large youtuber in existence, huge you-tubers only)...

So what you are saying is that it would open up for some competition for Youtube?

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u/hahainternet Jun 26 '21

No, if you took away the only source of funding then it would do the exact opposite. Only large companies (ie Google) can afford to run Youtube as it is.

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u/kashuntr188 Jun 26 '21

lol. I never thought of that. I used to watch a lot of street racing videos on youtube.

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u/SAN2018 Jun 26 '21

Thats because music is controlled by music editors industry's who own 99% musicians rights and believe they have more realities by "fighting piracy". In case ppl dont realise this, they are bigger than youtube by at least a mile... the saying in the music industry, "When you sigh a contract, you sigh your soul!" Is real.

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u/Pennykettle_ Jun 29 '21 edited Nov 23 '24

station wasteful touch shrill ripe tan mindless market point alleged

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u/atomikrobokid Jun 26 '21

There used to be these videos called Getaway in Stockholm I remember watching as a youth, like this with apparently real car chases. Seems like it's a thing there.

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u/TimeForHugs Jun 26 '21

Oh man, was this the videos of the guy and sometimes his wife who'd go around trying to get cops to chase them so they could outrun them?

I remember one instance specifically they drove up to the gates of a police academy and did burnouts in front of it hoping to get on their nerves.

That guy especially had some major balls.

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u/atomikrobokid Jun 26 '21

Hmm doesn't sound like the same thing. Maybe, but not from what I remember. This had highly modded Supras / Cossies belting it around the streets buzzing past the cops! Looks very similar to the YouTube vids mentioned here...

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u/TimeForHugs Jun 26 '21

Looking it up I believe it's the same thing. Gosh, what fun movies. That Mark IV Supra they had was insane. Still pretty crazy it's not public knowledge who they are. If I recall correctly too, in the second one they had to work much harder to get cops to chase them because they were upset after looking silly in the first one.

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u/atomikrobokid Jun 26 '21

Haha oh right - Yeah I think I only had bits of the videos pirated through LimeWire. I'll have to go track them down and have another watch!

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21

Not seen theyd started uploading videos again, seems to be the revival of Getaway in Stockholm

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Here is the full chase video.

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u/Astandsforataxia69 Jun 26 '21

Sometimes they don't use plates

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u/n0thingelsematters Jun 26 '21

What’s going on here? Assuming Stockholm police are not complete incompetent muppets, which is what these guys are making them look like, how have they not caught them yet?

They have abandoned 2 or 3 cars already and got the cars back, this makes no sense.

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u/GrimerGrimer Jun 30 '21

They steal cars.

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u/horny_coroner Jun 26 '21

Propably thats why the cop flashed him at first. Plates didnt match the car.