Get lost, you stupid idiot!
Get lost, you stupid idiot!
February 26, 2008
We now know a bit more about the fact that the video appeared on the Parisien website, then disappeared, then reappeared on Dailymotion, and then disappeared again:
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"buzz" around the SMS he would have sent to Céciliaa film******** ** **
| Source | : | Dailymotion did not censor the "Get lost, you stupid idiot" from Nicolas Sarkozy | Le Parisien | asked Dailymotion to stop the broadcast of its video of the clash between Nicolas Sarkozy and a visitor at the Agricultural Fair. | Christophe Dutheil 25-02-2008 | After the | , Nicolas Sarkozy once again stirred the web this weekend. The reason this time was a video | made by a Youpress journalist for | Le Parisien | at the agricultural fair, on Saturday, February 23. It shows Nicolas Sarkozy insulting a person who refuses to greet him while telling him | "Don't touch me, you're dirtying me" | . The President's response: | "Get lost, you stupid idiot" | . Immediate audience success, as this confrontation would have been viewed more than a million times in 24 hours, according to | Le Parisien | and its host Kewego. | The broadcast of the video in question - whose copies circulate on many sites - was also temporarily suspended yesterday by Dailymotion. | "Because of non-compliance with the terms of use", | explains the French video distribution platform. Result, the "buzz" immediately intensified, with several sites seeing a possible censorship operation. | Dailymotion has in fact just informed us that it | "removed this video at the request of the editor-in-chief of Le Parisien" | , who wanted to assert the daily's rights regarding the broadcast of this film. However, a dozen new copies have since been uploaded on the same platform. The same situation for YouTube, which seems to have kept the video online since its first broadcast on Saturday evening. | And the affair does not seem to be about to "die down". | , André Gunthert, researcher in visual studies at EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), indeed estimates that | "the increase in views of the video is the highest ever observed for a political video (greater than that of the "Sarkozy G8" video, which has since broken all records)" | . |
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| Source | : | Dailymotion did not censor the "Get lost, you stupid idiot" from Nicolas Sarkozy | Le Parisien | asked Dailymotion to stop the broadcast of its video of the clash between Nicolas Sarkozy and a visitor at the Agricultural Fair. | Christophe Dutheil 25-02-2008 | After the | , Nicolas Sarkozy once again stirred the web this weekend. The reason this time was a video | made by a Youpress journalist for | Le Parisien | at the agricultural fair, on Saturday, February 23. It shows Nicolas Sarkozy insulting a person who refuses to greet him while telling him | "Don't touch me, you're dirtying me" | . The President's response: | "Get lost, you stupid idiot" | . Immediate audience success, as this confrontation would have been viewed more than a million times in 24 hours, according to | Le Parisien | and its host Kewego. | The broadcast of the video in question - whose copies circulate on many sites - was also temporarily suspended yesterday by Dailymotion. | "Because of non-compliance with the terms of use", | explains the French video distribution platform. Result, the "buzz" immediately intensified, with several sites seeing a possible censorship operation. | Dailymotion has in fact just informed us that it | "removed this video at the request of the editor-in-chief of Le Parisien" | , who wanted to assert the daily's rights regarding the broadcast of this film. However, a dozen new copies have since been uploaded on the same platform. The same situation for YouTube, which seems to have kept the video online since its first broadcast on Saturday evening. | And the affair does not seem to be about to "die down". | , André Gunthert, researcher in visual studies at EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), indeed estimates that | "the increase in views of the video is the highest ever observed for a political video (greater than that of the "Sarkozy G8" video, which has since broken all records)" | . |
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It is important to go to the links that point to other blogs. You can see what happened being reconstructed. Elysian pressures were quickly exerted on the Parisien's editorial staff, which were then passed on by the newspaper's director to Dailymotion, which had hosted this sequence, posted by a reader (the Parisien's director was surprised because she thought that videos broadcast on the Parisien's website were not ... copyable). But as soon as this video disappeared from Dailymotion, it reappeared under different titles, posted by other readers. The Parisien, overwhelmed by this online war, finally put it back on its own website.
All of this is very instructive. On the following link we learn that Google has just been heavily condemned for the distribution of "The World According to Bush"
But immediately we see that the documentary remains accessible on Karl Zero's site:
The World According to Bush 1/2 at Karl Zero
http://leweb2zero.tv/video/eltone_6646f316154b54a
2/2
http://leweb2zero.tv/video/eltone_8646f31ccce99c6
All of this resembles a game of cops and robbers. The laws are in place, those that protect the authors and their rights, and that allow the state's reason to be expressed. But the works can be duplicated infinitely. Should we understand that the society that owns the rights to the film should sue Karl Zero? And, if it does, should it sue every person who has put a link on their site pointing to "the receiver's house"? As in the English proverb "It is easier to take a cat out of a bag than to put it back in." Like for the video containing Sarkozy's short phrase (which has gone around the world, through videos subtitled in all languages). The whole world is mocking a France that has a president so vulgar and so lacking in composure. The film on Bush has escaped all control. We live in the era of information s...