@Fluke 529705 wrote:
IIRC, the longest it got taken down was over the period of a bank holiday weekend?
cant really remember why, I think loads of people were putting up info to the party or something?
yep that was the one in 2006 where for some reason they tried to do a party in Suffolk, predictably got busted for this, some folk took back a genset whilst others were pepper sprayed. This was all fiilmed, uploaded to youtube and even more predictably Suffolk Constabulary got Google to divulge the info.
A chap who was caught up in all this and in ended up in Court (so I believe him) told me that the cops simply faxed Google HQ London and said “we are the police, this youtube contains crime in progress, give us the personal details of this user”.
And they got it, and were able to trace the film maker via ISP billing info and seize his camera and videotapes (which were all returned later but not after every frame had been gone through).
what was even more bizzare is the ravers had a party literally just across the border in Norfolk without incident, so why they fuck they did not just do it there in the first place I do not know.
it was around 2005/06 that the cops and also others opposed to unlicensed events started taking a serious interest in online stuff. At one point we had nearly every constabulary from the UK lurking on here, a fair few foreign ones, as well as the BBC, Daily Mail and a few journos and landowners trying various (rather poor and easily detectable) attempts to gain advanced info on unlicensed events.
