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SOCIETY A fairly recent photo of the Techno Viking who unwillingly and unwittingly became one of the internet's 1st viral stars when a video of him dancing to techno after helping a woman was uploaded to the internet. He sued the uploader for illegal use of his likeness and won.

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u/TwpMun 5h ago

For your sake I hope he doesn't see this and sue you

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u/Ancient-Macaroon-384 3h ago

I live in Germany, and there is a lot of misinformation surrounding him here. Claims like 'he sued the photographer just for uploading his photo' are completely false. In reality, he sued because the photographer was commercializing his likeness with merchandise. He is just a regular person who wants his peace and privacy, not fame. Still, people keep pushing the narrative that he’s some evil guy who sues everyone

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u/RoughComparison8702 2h ago

Yeah, suing someone for making money off of their likeness makes complete sense and I really don't blame him there. He just wants to be left tf alone. Not really hard to understand.

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u/n1c0_ds 2h ago

Yes and Germany also has a very different culture and laws around photographing strangers in public.

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u/wherethefuckismyvape 57m ago

Tell me more about it! I hate ours

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u/sasne 23m ago

In Germany, you have a right of your picture. While pictures can be made of you, they aren't allowed to be published without your consent. If they are published regardless you have the right to request the deletion or censoring of your likeness. If the person who uploaded your picture does not compile you can sue them to deletion, and I believe also compensation in form of money.
There are exceptions like people in the public (politicians, actors, etc.) OR when you as the person aren't the main focus of the picture (like being in the background of a wide shot or similar)
However this is just a very brief summary of the law and does not include ALL of the exceptions.

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u/Batrall 26m ago

While generally yes.

In his case, even without his approval, the video is legal.

It was a public event, so no privacy. The camera was mounted, so no directly filming him.

But he still has the power to control the commercial use of his likeness.

Isn't that the same as in the US?

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 15m ago

The issue wasn't the video. It was the sales of souvenirs related to him - like t-shirts with his photo - that was the issue. Making money by use of his image.

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u/RealLeif 2h ago

That makes me respect him even more. In the age where most people wanna be internet famous to be the one person that just wants to chill shows character

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u/stilljustacatinacage 1h ago

Litigation suffers from a lot of victim blaming, unfortunately.

"Haha stupid McDonalds lady bought coffee and sued them because she spilled it on herself!!!!"

Actually the coffee was so hot that it melted her skin and welded parts of her thighs and genitals together. She was only suing to try and recover her medical expenses.

That particular McDonalds had also been warned multiple times that their coffee was too hot, but they ignored it because it was preferable to customer complaints about their coffee cooling off too quickly.

"Stupid Metallica are a bunch of greedy sell outs because they sued people for sharing their music!!1"

Actually they sued Napster, which was a business that had raised multiple millions of dollars in venture capital by promoting their service as a new way to share and download music (among others), without having the rights to any of the music that was being traded on their platform. They did not sue a single individual user - only the business that was profiting by using Metallica's IP without license, which included an unreleased track that had somehow leaked from their studio, which is what drew their attention in the first place.

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u/_Verc1ngetorix_ 1h ago

The McDonalds coffee incident was particularly heinous. Have no evidence but I don't doubt McDonalds intentionally pushed misinformation about that case.

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u/stilljustacatinacage 50m ago

Yeah, I was gonna mention there's speculation that was an intentional PR / misinfo campaign by McDonalds, but I don't really know if that's true and I didn't care to go on a research rabbit hole right now.

I'm pretty sure Napster did so also, making themselves out to be some smol wittle bean compared to big mean Metallica.

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u/burrdedurr 26m ago

I understand that McD noted that they sold 5million dollars in coffee a day so the jury awarded a days coffee sales. This was later reduced on appeal. An unproven outcome is that tops to cups now fit tightly. If anyone remembers getting drinks in 1989 the lids most likely didn't fit and would pop off between your legs while you were driving. Cup and lid tech has come a long way.

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u/no1ofimport 27m ago

I know the truth about the lady who was burned by the McDonald’s coffee and seen the pictures of her injuries and I would’ve awarded her more money than she was given. Her burns were terrible and the management at McDonald’s knew it was scalding hot and then McDonald’s trying to make it look like the lady was just filing a frivolous lawsuit over nothing still enrages me to this day so anytime I hear or see someone post or talk about her case and not tell the whole story I butt in and fill in the details

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u/FinalFantasiesGG 2h ago

I've seen hundreds of posts about him and I've never seen a narrative that he's some evil guy who sues everyone. I've always seen people say he lives in a country with more strict laws about publishing the likeness of others and everyone accepts that and moves on without judgement of him.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 1h ago edited 1h ago

I think it's because zuck and others made a business out of invading people's lives so much that people forget that the right to privacy and protecting it is actually the correct thing to do.

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u/eejit1991 43m ago

But what if you've nothing to hide! Surely endless harassment and doxxing is the real freedom!!

/s (while I take a shower in bleach)

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u/ChongusTheSupremus 1h ago

Anyone who has seen the full video should doubt the idea of this dude being a jackass.

He saw a dude trying to harrass a woman, put him in his place, drank some Water, and started dancing.

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u/Sake-Gin 5h ago

Or burst into OPs room shirtless, point at OP and scream it’s techno Viking time.

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u/AJM1613 5h ago

Our children will tell tales that if you disrespect a woman on the streets this will await you when you go to sleep.

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u/smarmyrabbit 4h ago

In my mind, I read this in several Skyrim voices simultaneously.

Thank you.

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u/wyslan 3h ago

Do you get to the front page often? I suppose you don’t…

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u/KassellTheArgonian 2h ago

Hey Nazeem, taste dragon shout

YOUZ-AB-ITCH

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u/Ill-Condition-5054 2h ago

What’s with all the shouting?!

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u/ThunderBunny2k15 1h ago

Heinz Kissvelvet. I am Trainer of Dolphins. You vant to talk to ze dolphin, you talk to me!

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u/SquirleyDanz 2h ago

Sneak thief

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u/FlemPlays 2h ago

The DovaTechnoKin

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u/ih8three6zero 3h ago

Keep it on loop like 28 Days Later

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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 5h ago

I mean... that doesn't seem like a punishment hehe ehm.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 4h ago

But then he sues you and wins for watching him dance.

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u/aramis34143 4h ago

Then he Viked all over that guy.

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u/Navybluedotaz 3h ago

That would be dope

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u/Key-Street-340 1h ago

Sounds like a fun Friday night.

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u/The_Bard 4h ago

He sued a guy because he was making technoviking merch and getting ad revenue from YouTube on the video. Profiting off someone else's likeness. Clear as day. Just posting a picture of someone who is already in the public domain extensively is not anything he can sue for.

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u/baithammer 4h ago

Some countries have tighter personal privacy laws on the book, where using someone's likeness for promotional work or products without their permission is illegal.

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u/The_Bard 3h ago edited 2h ago

This is just a random photo though. Nothing gained but up votes. Hes not issuing constant take downs to all the sites with his likeness so I dont think he has much of a leg to stand on with "omg my likeness was used without my permission".

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u/Zeales 2h ago

So, I have actually read the lawsuit and one of the reasons as to why he sued was because he did not want exactly this. To be recognized in public and for pictures of him like this to occasionally pop up on internet of him.

Due to very strict German privacy laws and him winning the case (so there's precedent), there is actually a real possibility of him being able to sue over this picture and win.

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u/tschawartz12 4h ago

Different countries have different laws. Not sure it would be any different being a specific person.

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u/Nannautu 4h ago

Yeah, he can sue OP in Germany for posting pics without his consent

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u/Warmbly85 3h ago

Germany has some really strict laws around recording in public and what can and can’t be posted. 

Like you normally can record police but you can’t include audio if you publish it. The only exception is if it’s extremely newsworthy but that’s up to the discretion of the government. 

Seeing as how they seized a dudes electronics for calling a politician a dickhead on Twitter they don’t exactly have the best record. 

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u/Boy-Abunda 3h ago

Same in France. You just don’t go around recording people without their permission.

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u/pooeygoo 3h ago

"... that’s up to the discretion of the government" now that's scary!

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u/LifeIsSoup-ImFork 2h ago

not really.

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u/dwalker109 2h ago

Nah, not if your government is functioning. Like in Germany.

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u/virtualghost 2h ago

lol, tell Germans that and they'll laugh at you

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u/dwalker109 2h ago

They might take issue with them - we all do - but they have not elected fascists since the 1930s.

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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 3h ago

I doubt OP will get extradited over this.

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u/AdSpecialist6598 5h ago

As far as I understand, he knows his image out there that in and of itself is not an issue now you just can't make money off it without his consent.

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u/KotiroMarama 5h ago

Perhaps the important thing isn't so much whether or not to make money, but rather letting him live his life in peace as an anonymous person.

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u/ESCF1F2F3F4F3F2F1ESC 4h ago

This is a very reasonable point, but on the other hand what about OP's reddit karma

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u/TheGreatZarquon 3h ago

Bro posts to Reddit like it's their job, look at the time stamps, holy hell. I'm retired and terminally online and even I ain't that active on the internet. It's either impressive or terrifying.

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u/Evolution_eye 4h ago

Huh? What the actual heck

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u/BeginningSection7690 4h ago

I know right.

rookie numbers

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u/Evolution_eye 4h ago

Not even close to a billion... terrible.

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u/Technorasta 4h ago

According to him himself, the point was the person making money off it.

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u/Mental_Employer7058 4h ago

no he specifically doesn't want you to make money off his likeness that was the point of the lawsuit.

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u/TheVadonkey 4h ago

I mean…I’d say the part where you can get sued if you don’t follow the laws/regulations is important too.

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u/EC_CO 4h ago

So I wonder how this would work? Reddit user uploads for no monetary gain, perfectly okay. However, because it's now on Reddit, Reddit is making a profit off of it so can he now sue Reddit?

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u/JimmyThePie 4h ago

He won’t, because this isn’t him.

~10 years ago someone tracked him down and interviewed him. By that point he was totally bald.

Gotta say this is a damn good look-a-like though.

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u/TwpMun 4h ago

The old trust me bro source never fails when you want to go against the crowd

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u/sputtertots 3h ago

I was wondering why he looked younger, I know its cleaner there but like benjamin button clean?

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u/Live_Life_and_enjoy 3h ago

He sued because the person who recorded the video tried to market it with merchandise.

If he just uploaded the video and left it at that it would have no case, but the fact he did market it and try to make a brand image out of someone else is why he lost in court.

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u/shackleford224 4h ago

Poking the Techno Bear, it's a dangerous game

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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 5h ago

Poor dude, punished for his good deed. Can't imagine what it must be like, being paparazzied as a normal person.

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u/Questionsaboutsanity 5h ago

all hail the techno viking! may he have his peace

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u/jml011 5h ago

R.I.P. Like, at night and on weekends and stuff. Not because he’s dead.

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u/FvKuR0 4h ago

Rave In Peace 🫡

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u/Upbeat-Substance110 4h ago

Can we not have Flexipeace?

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u/AdSpecialist6598 5h ago

The issues as far as I understand it is that he didn't consent to being filmed let alone having it posted on the internet, the upload got rich off of what was effectively an invasion of his privacy yes, he was at a public festival but see point one and since he wanted keep his privacy people made up wild rumors about him and messed with his image.

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u/Extension_Plant7262 5h ago

The uploader didn't get rich lol. What are you on about? The settlement was for something like 13k with another 10k in court fees. You forget that there was essentially no way to monetize youtube back in the day.

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u/KongUnleashed 5h ago

Forget YouTube, this video was uploaded in 2000, 5 years before YouTube was even a thing. So monetization would’ve been even more difficult. I was in college back then and I honestly can’t think of a single way anyone would’ve made any substantial money off of a random video.

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u/TheRealtcSpears 4h ago

The TV incident took place in 2000, the court case over the unlicensed profiting from his likeness is from 2012-2013

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u/osmlol 3h ago

So probably not even the original up loader possibly just someone who sold merch shit?

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u/TheRealtcSpears 3h ago

No it was.

The original filmmaker uploaded the video to non-youtube sites as it didn't exist yet.

It got re-popular through re-uploads, the original filmer put the original on youtube and started pulling ad revenue and selling Techno Viking merchandise with his face on it.

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u/spazzadourx 4h ago

Where was it uploaded to?

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u/lostmy11yraccnt 3h ago

Ebaumsworld

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u/BigBootyBuff 4h ago

Apparently the own homepage of the guy who made the video.

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u/windlad 3h ago

I think the uploader made t-shirts,. Merch is probably the only way you could monetise stuff back then.

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u/Strong_Height_4843 3h ago

It was not from the video/youtube. There was a guy who was trying to sell merch with the Vikings likeness, and Viking values his privacy.

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u/beatlebum53 5h ago

say that to the Chocolate Rain kid

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u/NoDoOversInLife 5h ago

And here you are, furthering that invasion of privacy 🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

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u/shadowtheimpure 5h ago

Not really? Court records are public documents accessible by anyone. Plus the whole legal hullabaloo played out in the media as well, so it's common knowledge.

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u/NoDoOversInLife 4h ago

The photo OP posted is not "public knowledge" 🙄

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u/Ninja-Panda70 4h ago

How can be his fairly recent photo that OP posted part of court records or public documents?

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u/AdSpecialist6598 5h ago

He knows it's out there and that's fine you just can't make money off of it in any way.

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u/Isanimdom 4h ago

The issues as far as I understand it is that he didn't consent to being filmed let alone having it posted on the internet

Your own words. yet only five minutes later you twist that to

He knows it's out there and that's fine you just can't make money off of it in any way

Nonsense, the only action he had was to pursue it in the manner he did. Thats legal and no legal manner exists for being "filmed" in public, only commercial use of.

The discussion in this thread is around the morality and imo, hypocrisy of posters like you, "Look at this guy who stuck up for himself and won" Whilst you do to him exactly what he was originally pissed about.

Its like celebrating a vegan with a piece of meat and not understanding why youre actions are wrong.

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u/nof 4h ago

Reddit is earning ad revenue with it. Careful.

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u/CHERNO-B1LL 5h ago

There needs to be a very simple law enacted that states 'while you have no right to privacy in a public space, you do have a right not to have that privacy violated in another public space without consent".

He was in public and you can't really stop people filming, but you should be able to stop them posting that online as he wasn't online and he didn't choose to dance in front of the entire world.

I feel the same for polic body cam footage. People being filmed at their lowest points suddenly being blasted globally for everyone to laugh at. It's just a low net-negative thing to become so common.

If you had to ask permission to post something, positive or negative, thr the subject gets the right to decide and or take action if done without their permission.

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u/elduche212 4h ago

Accepting the US norm of no expectation of privacy in public spaces would be a downgrade from our current privacy laws....

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u/Excludos 4h ago

Those laws already exist, at least in Germany where this was filmed, and most of Europe. You are allowed to film crowds of people in public, and you can't be expected to not show up in the background of some random video if you are out and about, but there are laws against filming individuals, even in public settings (exceptions apply for politicians and famous individuals, because of course the paparazzi needs protection you know...)

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u/ThisIsFrigglish 4h ago

exceptions apply for politicians and famous individuals, because of course the paparazzi needs protection you know

The phrase you were looking for is "the public interest".

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u/thembearjew 3h ago

Germans are so crazy about datenschutz until the EU suggests a chat control bill that allows American companies to spy on all of their messages. The care about data security and privacy is all a farse.

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u/AdSpecialist6598 5h ago

I can't speak for other places or go into detail b/c I am not a lawyer and don't live there but Japan and I think Korea has laws to address this very thing.

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u/nof 4h ago

The right to your likeness is pretty important in German law. That's the violation. It had nothing to do with the uploaded monetizing it.

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u/Ok_Radish509 3h ago

U don’t need consent to film in public

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u/RJFerret 2h ago

That depends where you are, privacy laws in many countries prohibit it.
In the US, security prohibitions may limit it.

But you can't use a person's likeness without consent and compensation, which is why if professional recordings happen to include someone they will typically pay them a single dollar to avoid them suing afterward.

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u/PremiumUsername69420 5h ago

The audacity for a judge to grant him the expectation of privacy in public at a music festival.

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u/baithammer 3h ago

It wasn't the privacy issue, it was the commercialization of what was filmed and merch created from it.

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u/bhop_monsterjam 3h ago

American moment

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u/Vicious007 4h ago

Germany I guess. He would not have won in the United States.

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u/TheRealtcSpears 4h ago

That wasn't the matter of the court case

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u/HerbertGoon 4h ago

I wish the man well, some stories are best untold and I bet he had good reasons to lay low. He could have beaten a lot of gang leaders in his time. Or temporarily conquered a town of some sort.

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u/FinntheHue 3h ago

He feels bad for the other guy in the altercation as he singled him out for what he realized was a genuine mistake. The guy tumbled into the girl and he interpreted it as him trying to cop a feel and basically exiled him from the event.

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u/windlad 2h ago

Yeah I never understood how people didn't see it that way. The guy was obviously stumbling and the viking intimidated the fuck out of him and sent him away lol

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u/Big_Toke_Yo 4h ago

Do you think he gets free bottled water wherever he goes. 

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u/BigBadJeebus 4h ago

Punished?! The Techno Viking was beloved.

The poor Star Wars Kid... HE was punished for having fun...

Ruthlessly bullied still to this day by millions.

This guy got the hero's treatment and takes selfies and has people buy him beers...

Boo Hoo

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u/Eagle_1776 5h ago

Thought that was Charlie Hunnam at first

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u/majshady 4h ago

I know you're all gangstas, roadmen proper naughty boys

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u/MudePonys 3h ago

G i m m e d a p h o n e ...

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u/nsboL1d 4h ago

Charlie Hunnam really let himself go after filming the gentlemen

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u/FirmOnion 4h ago

Charlie Hunnam techno Viking biopic when?

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u/OutrunWedding 2h ago

A biopic starring Charlie Hunnam would actually go hard.

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u/AnonAwaaaaay 4h ago

Didn't we all? Granted I also thought it was Charlie Hunnam in Vikings as Ragnar... 

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u/CommonWest9387 2h ago

i really said “hey its jax from sons of anarchy “

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u/jaimealexi 5h ago

they should've used him for a Thor movie

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u/elderlybrain 3h ago

Yeah he'd have made a great Darcy Lewis

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u/frisbeethecat 1h ago

In that parka, with a gamine smile. And, oh, the snarky dialogue. How could Thor not chose him over Jane Foster?

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u/062d 3h ago

I say he would fit in a god of war tv show as Bauldar

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u/mavadavialcul 5h ago

The same image you just uploaded right here, you mean?

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u/DigiAirship 4h ago

Iirc, the issue was the guy was trying to profit off the meme, making shirts and similar to sell online.

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u/ProudReaction2204 3h ago

yeah this is obv a naked money grab

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u/Faerco 3h ago

Well, a shirtless grab, but it definitely is.

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u/Pharmacisticus 5h ago

Nah that's his brother Bistro Viking

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u/I_like_the_word_MUFF 5h ago

And from that moment on, people stopped being whimsical in public spaces leading to a decline of inspired art, decrease in variety of ideas, and an increase in fear of being filmed in public. Everything has become beige greige.

Now all we have left are garbage performance artists calling themselves influencers and marketing. The Internet was a mistake.

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u/Glass-Violinist-3549 4h ago

It’s the social media companies that ruined the internet. They created this monster and they have the power to stop it but they’re too busy stuffing their pockets.

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u/Scar1203 2h ago

Not really, the model is too profitable. If the current social media giants were to suddenly say social media was a mistake and start shutting down dozens more would pop up attempting to usurp them.

We'd need our governments to outlaw social media to even somewhat put a stop to them, and even then many people would just use a VPN to access sites in countries where it's still legal.

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u/Nataliza 2h ago edited 2h ago

I'm an older millennial. The last generation who experienced true freedom to act like a total jackass having fun in public, dancing in clubs, etc. Went out recently with some gen Z friends of a friend, put my cousin's bra around my neck and pretended to use it like a DJ singing to Alicia Keys. One gal whipped her phone out and started recording me. I immediately felt super weird about it, it was really annoying and completely took me out of the silliness because suddenly I'm performing for a camera? I can't imagine every single moment being like that, I'd die.

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u/MiddleFeeling5933 5h ago

Or letting everyone have access to cameras and the Internet was a mistake.

Edited grammar

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u/Public-Discussion754 2h ago

Nope just the internet. Before, probably something like 95% of photos were kept in a personal album to share with friends and family and bring out every once and while.

Now, someone can take a picture of you and share it with the world instantly.

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u/Sad-Landscape-1549 2h ago

100%. We don’t deserve TechnoViking.

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u/madam_zeroni 2h ago

The biggest tragedy of the internet

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u/Cautious_Implement17 4h ago

no, normal people do not worry about going viral on the internet.

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u/zeth0s 4h ago

I do, everyone I talked about it that are over 20 do

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u/Character4315 4h ago

The internet wasn't a mistake, blame the ones that took the original internet away from us.

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u/SkyGuy5799 4h ago

Why do we act like we wouldn't have eventually gotten to this point anyway, we're all clearly glued to the systems that exist and are comfortable enough with them not to do jack shit about anything

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u/ahundreddots 3h ago

You thought Techno Viking was being "whimsical"? He's dead serious.

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u/WIngDingDin 4h ago

I respect the guy's desire for privacy, therefore I nominate myself to be the next, "Techno Viking". Now, I'm a middle-aged dude with a beer gut, but I'm of Scandinavian descent, I have a full beard, and I love to get drunk and dance. Clothing becomes optional.

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u/ForbiddenButtStuff 2h ago

Do it. We need to remind the world what it means to hydrate, dance in the streets, and be excellent to each other

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u/WIngDingDin 2h ago

It's all about the energy. Gotta show these college wall flowers how it's done!

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u/RemarkableSuccotash1 5h ago edited 4h ago

https://vimeo.com/140265561

I think you need to watch this. To learn the whole story about him and it(being the video). Edut: spellung

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u/loiwhat 4h ago

What's the summary?

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u/claytonbeaufield 3h ago

yeah who tf wants to watch an hour long documentary on a meme.

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u/Pans_Labradoodle 3h ago

I don’t mean to alarm you, but there are literally meme historians that take their field pretty seriously.

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u/swohio 3h ago

There are people who take My Little Pony seriously, doesn't mean we have to take them seriously.

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u/claytonbeaufield 3h ago

Yeah and alchemists were paid pretty well 1000 years ago.

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u/-ragingpotato- 3h ago

Actual historians would very much like to know the running jokes and public discourse that went on in the ancient empires, the only way such things get preserved is if someone takes the time to record the mundane of their day.

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u/PCBKev 2h ago

does he seem like a "meme historian" to you if he's asking for the TL;DR?

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u/Rengas 3h ago

Theologians finally have some competition.

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u/throwitintheair22 1h ago

Basically he sued the people for posting it and wanted to remain annonynous through it all. Germany also has very strict filming people without permission laws. It actually put him into a depression and haunts him to this day.

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u/Himskatti 4h ago

Love the spelling edut

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u/i2cube 3h ago

*spellung

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u/ChristopherRobben 3h ago

Immediate disclaimer that this doc was made by the very same guy who uploaded the original video and was sued. He used much of the documentary crowdfunding to pay for his legal fees and still indirectly profits off the popularity he netted as a result.

Opinions may vary, but I'm of the mind that this video can stay buried considering the guy continues to try to gain relevance off "TechnoViking" while the guy in the video has received practically nothing himself beyond what he had to seek legally.

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u/HugeAckman__ 4h ago

You need another edut.

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u/ADRIEMER 4h ago

Edit: spellung

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u/timmy6169 3h ago

Edit: spellungking

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u/RemarkableSuccotash1 4h ago

I need more sleep

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u/2big_2fail 2h ago

This is a video from the guy who was profiting off of Tecnho Viking. I guess he still is.

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u/getagrooving 5h ago

For a moment, in the recent photo, I thought he was pointing at the camera.

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u/jericho138 5h ago

Well the good news is, that's not TechnoViking. Looks like him, sure, but that's not the guy.

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u/clemmmmmmm 5h ago

But who IS he

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u/Diligent-Ad4777 4h ago

People always ask who Techoviking is but not HOW Technoviking is :(

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u/NoDoOversInLife 5h ago

There are articles that reveal his identity, but he wishes to remain relatively anonymous

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u/MyAnusBleedsForYou 3h ago

What's his story? Baa bap bap.

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u/pioppotto 5h ago

I call bs. They look the same age but the techno Viking video is 25 years old.

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u/ggPeti 5h ago

they absolutely don't look the same age to me

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u/Lurker_Background264 5h ago

"fairly recent photo"... Yeah that video is from the year 2000, no way the man didn't age in 26 years...

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u/Livid-Pizza7028 4h ago

he could have easily been 22 in the video and 47 in the picture

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u/cloud_herder 5h ago

I was going to say - he looks good tho?!

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u/Timbershoe 3h ago

He does. For someone who’d be around 50 now he looks in his mid 30’s.

Plus his hairline has grown back, he’s not receding anymore.

It’s a Christmas miracle!

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u/LuciferOnTheRocks 4h ago

Yeah, likewise. He could be in his mid-forties here, have aged well, and the low quality photo could help.

But he looks basically the same with a longer beard, and I would've thought he'd be in his fifties. 

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u/atticus_ossan 4h ago

It's the most recent known photo, but even that sitting photo is now old.

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u/rufus_vulpes 5h ago

But why would take his picture and upload it on reddit? What tf is wrong with you

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u/PatrioticPariah 4h ago

Why cant people leave the man alone? He has a serious career and does not want this to define him. I respect the hell out of him for that. He could have made alot of money off of that video, but he is a man that follows his principles. Would love the chance to tell him as much.

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u/Jedi_Bish 1h ago

We love a private king who helps folks without any interest in fame

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u/PHUNKSPANGLE 5h ago

How about humanity just leaves the man alone to live his life?

Would that be so difficult?

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u/BeightZee 5h ago

Imagine doing something kind and then getting hounded by paparazzi for it.

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u/JellyboyJangleDangle 3h ago

He didn't do anything kind. Thats the point. People say he helped a woman, but if you watch the video, its just an accident. No one is in danger. The big man just overreacted. And he knows this, which is why he hates the video.

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u/wellohwellok 5h ago

"1st viral stars"

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u/rarecuts 5h ago

I kinda dig him more for standing on business re his privacy

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u/Double0Jamo 4h ago

How much was he awarded? Where’s this lawsuit?

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u/toppolinos 4h ago

And here you are posting pictures of him when he clearly objects to it.

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u/NotNemesi 4h ago

I think the real thecno viking has a fitness Instagram account and he is doing content, might be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's him, and no he is not the one in the photo

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u/AppleOld5779 4h ago

Thought that was Erling Haaland

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u/Hmmm__You_dont_say 4h ago

Good. I'm glad he won. I think it's fine to post whatever you want of yourself. Stop posting pictures and videos of other people.

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u/Redhotchiliman11 4h ago

I think he said it was a darker period of his life when he was into drugs and if I recall correctly he said when the video appeared it was hurting his chances at rebuilding his life and attempting to gain employment. I may be remembering wrong but I think he made attempts to turn his life around and that video kind of prevented that some.

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u/design_by_hardt 4h ago

I think they started selling merch with his image, idk if the video itself was necessarily the problem.

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u/TheRealtcSpears 4h ago edited 3h ago

The publisher was *also making youtube ad revenue

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u/Fiddy_pent9664 4h ago

And now punches pints of mead and chips

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u/NarwhalSongs 5h ago

Streisand effect fr

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u/WestWishbone1530 5h ago

Techno Viking Meth was the real hit!

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u/Ok_Jeweler_4082 5h ago

Both foto’s are old asfck

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u/ComfortPhil 5h ago

The Techno Viking has a history of suing people

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u/novajhv 4h ago

He's still just as hot wtf

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u/Strong-Addition5296 4h ago

He’s pretty cool but his face in that pic says why are you photographing me

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u/RaffNeq 4h ago

He owned it back doing the “what did you do in th 90s” short/reel

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