Trump Indicted!

[Kaitzilla]

The judge streams his own trials from a personal account?

The first videos started 3 months ago on June 1st.

Should have more months to get production values up.


There are absolutely dead bodies shown with genitals blurred out, so nsfw tags might be warranted when viewing the channel.

Trump's trial probably won't have anything graphic.


It does seem to be for education purposes.

Witnesses do appear nervous before testifying.

I don't think there are any ads?

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I believe that McAfee has departed the living world a while ago, and is definitely not judge material regardless.

Click on the youtube link. The guy's name is Judge Scott McAfee. Obviously not the one and true McAfee but like the joke had to be done.

This said, how awesome would it be if it was the actual McAfee him self preceding over this trial. Like he'd be taking testimonies while snorting cocaine off a scantly clad lady while explosions are happening in the background and yet somehow everyone him self included would be taking the whole thing dead seriously. I'd watch that.

 

[JollyRoger]

Like he'd be taking testimonies while snorting cocaine off a scantly clad lady

Objection. I would like the court to take judicial notice that the established protocol is off the (presumably unclad) backside, not scantily clad. It was clearly established in Craig James' murder trial.

 

[Gori the Grey]

So . . . theoretically televised, then. The traffic will crash YouTube's servers.

Why can't he just let the networks carry it?

 

[Sommerswerd]

So . . . theoretically televised, then. The traffic will crash YouTube's servers.

Why can't he just let the networks carry it?

Because that would be too easy and make too much sense.

It will be more of a fiasco, and thus more entertaining this way.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

So . . . theoretically televised, then. The traffic will crash YouTube's servers.

Why can't he just let the networks carry it?

Because the rest of us that do not have access to american TV also want to watch Trump play the role of his life on reality TV.

 

[Remorseless1]

Because the rest of us that do not have access to american TV also want to watch Trump play the role of his life on reality TV.

Pretty sure the broadcast and satellite networks will pick it up. They'll sue YouTube if they have to.

 

[Birdjaguar]

If he sold tickets, would it be bigger than Taylor Swift? How many people would pay a dollar?

 

[Broken_Erika]

How many people would pay a dollar?

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Pretty sure the broadcast and satellite networks will pick it up. They'll sue YouTube if they have to.

No, not really. Like you really overestimate how much our news channels or even most of the people here care about america. Like, at best we might get a 5 seconds clip of the sentencing with commentary on top instead of the original audio.

So I very much applaud judge McAfee's decision to make his namesake proud by turning the political trial of the century into reality television.

Announcer voice:
And now, from the creators of The Apprentice comes the new reality hit of the century. The show trial of Donald Trump.
Que a montage of clips of McAfee doing his thing, snorting coke and drinking, objections being overruled by a gunshot over the head of Trumps council, Trump checking twitter, Trump dramatically standing up in court turning to his lawyer and going "You are fired.", prosecution council being all Ace Attorney one moment and than carting in literal wheelbarrows of documents the next, the crew from the original Hanna Barbera Scoobie Doo testifying etc. And it's all presented like one of those annoying intro/adds for TV shows that american sitcoms tend to have that spoil half the series for you if you watch them.

All the while the commentator from the hit cartoon Wacky Racers is narrating:
Will Trump be proven guilty or will the government have to convict him anyway? Will there be a flame war on Twitter? Will Trump commit suicide in prison or will the show get a second season on appeal? See this and more in The Trial. Coming soon only on basic cable.

And than comes the twist ending everyone complains about where Trump is elected president and declares him self the god emperor of america. And like half the nation just quits the show.

 

[uppi]

So . . . theoretically televised, then. The traffic will crash YouTube's servers.

I don't think that is a given. It would certainly stress their CDN, but it may be very well possible to serve most users.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I don't think that is a given. It would certainly stress their CDN, but it may be very well possible to serve most users.

They won't even feel the load.

Firstly, google has distributed servers in data centers around the world that use caching and other clever techniques to balance load in real time. Secondly most of the people watching the trial are already hooked on youtube and would likely have been watching something else instead thus only shifting the load rather than increasing it.

Really, I would be shocked if there was any noticeable effect.

 

[Gorbles]

YouTube handled Taylor Swift just fine. Biggest issue there was working out how to update the view counter once it broke a billion (or whatever the number was).

Sorry, I'm not a Swiftie, but I don't see Trump topping that.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I"m not doubting your overall claim, PPQ, but I almost never watch YouTube and I would be watching this.

(That said, I have to go post a cool thing I just saw on YouTube in the YouTube thread.)

Edit: Trump would be sad if he didn't get better ratings than Swift.

 

[Takhisis]

Can 100 million people watch a Utube feed?

The current record is 8 million people viewing the live stream of the India moon lander succeeding at the lunar south pole last week.

World’s most viewed live-stream on YouTube: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 tops the list with 8.06 million views

India scripted history on August 23 with the successful landing of the Indian Space and Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon. ISRO created another record during the live streaming of the landmark event on YouTube. The streaming witnessed over 8 million...

www.deccanherald.com

Eh. The YouTube feed is something that other networks can tap into at any time.

 

[Core Imposter]

What's the law on use of the video by the cable networks. Will Nancy Grace be doing commentary minute by minute?

 

[Remorseless1]

No, not really. Like you really overestimate how much our news channels or even most of the people here care about america. Like, at best we might get a 5 seconds clip of the sentencing with commentary on top instead of the original audio.

So I very much applaud judge McAfee's decision to make his namesake proud by turning the political trial of the century into reality television.

Announcer voice:
And now, from the creators of The Apprentice comes the new reality hit of the century. The show trial of Donald Trump.
Que a montage of clips of McAfee doing his thing, snorting coke and drinking, objections being overruled by a gunshot over the head of Trumps council, Trump checking twitter, Trump dramatically standing up in court turning to his lawyer and going "You are fired.", prosecution council being all Ace Attorney one moment and than carting in literal wheelbarrows of documents the next, the crew from the original Hanna Barbera Scoobie Doo testifying etc. And it's all presented like one of those annoying intro/adds for TV shows that american sitcoms tend to have that spoil half the series for you if you watch them.

All the while the commentator from the hit cartoon Wacky Racers is narrating:
Will Trump be proven guilty or will the government have to convict him anyway? Will there be a flame war on Twitter? Will Trump commit suicide in prison or will the show get a second season on appeal? See this and more in The Trial. Coming soon only on basic cable.

And than comes the twist ending everyone complains about where Trump is elected president and declares him self the god emperor of america. And like half the nation just quits the show.

I was talking about US networks and satellite. To me, it matters not if people in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America don't see a second of any trial or if they even care about the whole mess. Pretty sure Americans would tune in.

 

[Takhisis]

I was talking about US networks and satellite. To me, it matters not if people in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America don't see a second of any trial or if they even care about the whole mess. Pretty sure Americans would tune in.

Well, we care, because the US government rules us to greater levels than even US citizens would like to admit to themselves.

 

[IglooDame]

I don't think it will break Youtube/Google. Multicasting (which is what they'll be doing for the livestream) is a lot less taxing anyway.

I do think the networks have a reasonable case (heh) that broadcasting a 'closed' government event via a single source is not kosher.

 

[Samson]

I don't think it will break Youtube/Google. Multicasting (which is what they'll be doing for the livestream) is a lot less taxing anyway.

I do think the networks have a reasonable case (heh) that broadcasting a 'closed' government event via a single source is not kosher.

I do not think youtube asks for exclusivity in the contract, so the only entity who would prevent the networks showing it is the judge. That seems unlikely.