14 DAY TRIAL // The famous video sharing platform YouTube has often some another goal than sharing clips with other Internet users. For example, a lot of consumers are using YouTube to publish their stories and require other users' help. But the most interesting purpose of the Google service was revealed by the police officers who turned to YouTube in order to publish surveillance videos and demand users' information to find and arrest the suspects. Today, NewsChannel5.com reports a similar story in the Knox County where the local sheriff created a special profile on YouTube in which he periodically uploads new clips and videos to inform users about crimes and robberies.
"The Knox County Sheriff's Office has turned to a different medium to help solve crime. The sheriff's office has set up its own page on YouTube that includes surveillance videos of crimes like robberies. The most recent video shows a purse-snatcher who knocked a 72-year-old woman down when he stole her purse in a grocery store parking lot. Chief Deputy Tom Spangler said it's the latest tool to help fight crime," the same publication reports.
In the past, the online video sharing platform managed to rescue a woman's life after he published a clip on YouTube desperately looking for a matching bone marrow. She managed to find one in Denmark who also saved her life after the video recorded an impressive number of views and comments posted by other viewers.
YouTube was acquired by Google in October 2006 when the Mountain View company paid no less than $1.65 billion. Since then, YouTube was continuously kept in the spotlights due to an impressive number of lawsuits filed by other media companies that accused Google for copyright infringement. The last one is Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central that also demanded $1 billion in damages.