14 DAY TRIAL // As I recently said, YouTube is no more an online video sharing service because more and more users are attracted by Google's product to resolve their own cases. Today, Globe and Mail reported that YouTube is now the product that fights to find some stolen gems after their owners posted a video to identify the burglars. The victims of the theft also announced a $10.000 reward for any information that leads to the identification of the burglars that managed to steal the gems straight from the owners' house in York Region on March 29.
"I thought if we put a video together that showed the jewelry that we were looking for, and talked about the reward that we're prepared to pay, that we might get some interest either from the criminal community or people who had some knowledge of what was going on in this particular occurrence," Chris Mathers, risk consulting agent, sustained according to the same publication.
The 77-second video sustained the owners of the gems are not interested in arresting the burglars because all they want is to recover their products.
This is not the first time when YouTube is used with a different goal than sharing videos with friends and family. Recently, a policeman decided to publish a surveillance video to require information from the users that can help him arrest the attackers. A woman fighting against leukemia also published a video on YouTube to present her case and to require help because she was looking for a matching donor to rescue her life. The woman managed to find a donor in Denmark, just after the clip recorded thousands of views and numerous messages meant to support the victim of the disease.