Since I posted the video “1 Lunatic, 1 Ice pick” near the end of May, I’ve been bombarded with e-mails. I’ve received praise and chastisement for hosting the video, and many have asked “Are you concerned about being charged for hosting this video?”
In short, no. I’m not concerned, and I’m not taking the video down.
The internet is a open space, a new frontier, the world’s new manifest destiny if you will. It offers freedom of expression in an extreme sense. You can post images, video, your words, your voice, your ideas. You can sway opinions in the masses with your website, or alienate hundreds of thousands of people. While I did not create this video (nor was I the only one to originally come across it), I am seemingly one of the few with the video still up and running.
Yes, I admit- the video is violent, disconcerting, and jarring. But that is human life. Violence happens every day, regardless of it getting on the internet in .flv format. Bloody fights are posted on youtube and featured for a premium on Pay Per View. Videos of blown off limbs and cracked open skulls are found on numerous public video sites. Ogrish and rotten.com both flourish on the basic human nature to see gross, gory things. Many pay sites exist for the sole reason of pumping out extremely masochistic videos for fetishists around the world. Obscene, violent, bloody, disgusting videos are everywhere. The only reason this video is being targeted for litigation (against the third party hosts of a video, that is) is because it hit national news.
As of the time of this posting, I have not been asked to remove the video by any reputable source. I have received many negative comments about the video, yes- but I also ensured the video was labeled as graphic. Many complaints have been on personal moral grounds, which don’t happen to follow my own feelings- therefore they have been ignored.
This video was originally placed online for Luka’s own satisfaction- he wanted attention and he got it. I placed this video on my website because the video is a dark reminder that the human race isn’t all inherently good. There are sick people out there, and it’s a reminder that the man or woman you thought you could trust could turn on you. The video makes you think about it being you on that bed instead of Jun Lin, or your best friend or brother or sister or daughter or son. It makes you feel angry about what he did, and it makes you much more aware. It’s a warning for many, no longer showboating for one deranged murderer.
It’s also a rather large mark of shame against Canadian law enforcement. Previous to the murder of Jun Lin, multiple complaints against Luka Magnotta had been made, in particular two previous videos of animal cruelty. He had been positively identified from these videos two years ago, and the complaints were ignored. A dangerous criminal was blatantly ignored by employees who were hired to ensure the people were safe from the likes of Luka. How’s that for a waste of taxpayer dollars?
If you’ve read this far, good for you. Long story short: I’m not afraid of litigation. Freedom of expression is an unalienable right despite the fact that the message is disturbing.
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kamonra,
you are wrong. Im not talking about the Twitter Account, im talking about some tweets. And these teewts are for promoting the page and getting more traffic. And asking for money for this…sorry, you complain about the “system” and the media. you play the same game. jsut a little bid worse. please stop talking about freedom of expression. the killer made this video for public, so this is why it dont belong here. you are not fighting for freedom of the internet. you just enjoy this sort of video. i just wonder. if you would get a treatment like Jun, you would enjoy it that everyone can watch it and make fun out of if. like one comment i read here “i like the 80s music”?
btw i feel so sorry that your server is getting SMASHED.
Jman, I disagree with you 100% He has all the rights to place what he wants. Although the video is graphic and unsettling, it takes courage for someone to place this on their site. I do not think he’s doing this to “Boost his own Popularity”. If he wanted to do that i’m sure he could of found a better way of doing it then posting this video. The fact that many people have viewed the video shows the curiosity of many, like myself. At first i didn’t believe when i heard that this video was posted online, I thought it was another media stunt. With a quick google search i found it, and well everything the media was saying was true. Which is good for once, to hear the truth from the our national or international news media. But this is just my option.
Ya dude, seriously? You can spew your freedom of internet crap all you like, I’m the biggest supporter of internet freedom and freedom in general but you’re using this to boost you’re own popularity which is of extreme poor taste, this video is a product of a crime. And you are no better then the psycho that did this for attention.
Was Luka hurting animals? There was a cat in the vid.
not convinced. it’s all about traffic for your webpage.
“it makes you much more aware. It’s a warning for many”
so cheap…
I’m currently receiving more traffic than can be handled at the moment, I had to buy an extra 15TB of bandwidth to handle it all.
I was perfectly happy with the 10-20 thousand hits a day I was recieiving before, the 100-300k a day over the past few days has caused a lot of stress on the system and the network it runs on. I never expected huge amounts of traffic it just happened to work out that way.
You promote this video on twitter. you want to have traffic.
And that you set a link to the kiwi6-download – is necessary so that everyone can own the video? and spread the message…”be aware”?
what you think Jun Li would say to this?
and dont you think you have a certain responsibility if you publish a video like this on your blog – for the victim and his family?
again – im not convinced.
So, Ba… who are you to be spewing about information on morals? Judge not lest ye be judged, and all that.
The server is getting SMASHED by this traffic. The twitter feed was set up WAY before this video was posted. The ads and the donation button were set up to try to counterbalance the humongous bill we’re going to be getting.
Do me a favor and bite me, k?