YouTube Video Of Man Speeding Lands Him In Prison
February 21, 2008 by Malcolm
Filed under Automotive, Video
As a man who posted video online of himself speeding at 130mph has been handed a four-month suspended prison term, police are increasingly relying on YouTube as a crime fighting weapon.
Recently an anonymous email was sent to the authorities of a particular youtube video of someone speeding. Danny Hyde had filmed himself doing 130mph and posted the video on youtube. Until now this was all so “cool” and people like Danny were not considered “stupid criminals” until now.
You probably ask yourself how in the world do you know that was whomever behind the wheel of a car on a video posted on youtube. Police use voice analysis tools to recognize the voice of the criminal in the act and do a comparison of the person they are questioning. Bingo, they have you caught red handed. They can even go as far as doing face recognition and of course the obvious thing, looking at your car and/or tag if you are bold enough to leave that on the video.
Does this mean that you will get caught because you posted a video of you doing something stupid on youtube. Probably not, but it will be in the back of your head the next time you attempt to post any type of video related to performing criminal acts such as speeding.
Police already monitor the internet for other obvious criminal acts such as kiddy porn, theft, spamming, and hacking. Now they are closely monitoring the videos posted on youtube. Because the rate of videos posted on youtube is at an all-time high the likely hood of you getting caught right now is very low but we do not condone you pushing your luck by posting a video of you going 154mph in your new BMW M3. We just might call you a “stupid criminal” if you do and plaster your name all over the internet.
A prime example of a YouTube video of someone speeding:
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GPS Tracking on Thu, 21st Feb 2008 4:34 pm
Well those “stupid criminals” deserve to get caught by those “Smart Cops”
Malcolm on Thu, 21st Feb 2008 4:38 pm
i agree! Not too smart to post that stuff online. Just like if you were to post a video of you shooting someone… whats the difference?
Michael on Thu, 25th Jun 2009 3:49 pm
Really, this shouldn’t be condoned nor accepted. There are plenty of people going 130mph on the freeway daily. I will tell you thats true because I used to be one of them.
If the police cannot catch the person in the act they shouldn’t be allowed to use videotape on you tube to prosecute.
Anyone could create a fake youtube video of them going 130mph just because they want to be “cool” and not actually ever reach that speed. Furthermore, anyone could create fake videos of others to basically cause destruction to somebody they do not like.
Just because there is an audio clip embedded in the video clip doesn’t mean that the video/audio actually correspond. Video editing these days is very easy and replicating fake videos is NOT HARD AT ALL.
Do you want to be on the other side of one of these ridiculous arrests? When a video is uploaded to youtube it is compressed with a video codec which removes all of the traces of the original formatting, there is no way to forensically prove that the video has not been modified.
I don’t see how this kid got caught up in all of this, even if he DID it.
Were in AMERICA folks, we should have higher standards of justice.