Comment by Validark
Comment by Validark 16 hours ago
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Comment by Validark 16 hours ago
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Isn't that an even stronger argument that the leak shouldn't be criminal?
No, for the same that stealing an item isn’t okay because there is more in the back.
You can infinitely "steal" digital data. That's where the analogy breaks down.
Imaginary property is imaginary.
Leaking crash footage to CNN isn't clearly "the right thing". Except for CNN I guess, who probably got a lot of views and clicks from the footage.
The person got paid to grant exclusive rights to the videos to CNN, this wasn't just posting to social media to spread the word.
The NTSB provided the footage. Nothing further was required.
bro, no one is suggesting we should keep plane crashes secret, but yeah I do find it a little distasteful to turn on the TV and see the moment hundreds of people were killed.
Distasteful? I understand that sentiment for the family, but we should all be exposed to the horrors of these lapses. It’s exceedingly rare that you are ever subjected to the bodily carnage, and I’m reminded of when we ceased broadcasting footage of soldiers’ caskets coming home due to it dissuading popular opinion toward war.
Why is leaking the video the right thing? There were multiple videos of the incident including footage from a EarthCam live camera. And the NTSB released multiple videos as part of their investigation. The video wasn't leaked in order to stop a coverup.