14 DAY TRIAL // Some new violent videos were published on Google's YouTube video-sharing solution displaying multiple students fighting in the schoolyard. Although numerous teachers were yelling at the students to stop fighting and recording, they continued the brawl and uploaded the movie on the video service provided by the search giant. The 2 minutes and 30 seconds recording was removed from the website but the 10 former and 10 current students of the school were sent to the hospital. The police arrested one student while the other ones were suspended from school.
"The brawl broke out after former students stormed the school's playground about 1pm. Teachers called police and placed the school in lockdown, ushering students inside classrooms and locking doors until the situation was deemed to be safe. Both Police Minister John Watkins and Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt denied their departments had attempted a cover-up of the incident, which was only revealed to the public yesterday," The Border Mail reported.
This is not the first time when YouTube serves for other goals than sharing and commenting videos because Google's product is really popular among the Internet users. In the past, a woman that fights against cancer published a movie on Google's video service to inform other users about the treatment and the symptoms of the disease. A few days ago, a policeman reported he managed to arrest a suspect after he published a surveillance video on YouTube, allowing other users to identify the man.
As you know, YouTube was recently affected by a huge video removal ordered by Viacom that demanded Google to delete almost 100.000 clips provided by the company from the video service. Although YouTube lost an important amount of content, it managed to remain the leader of the video-sharing services and is continuously more popular than other similar products.