You can get arrested via YouTube now?

As I was sitting on the crapper reading the local news on my mobile device, I came across this story: 'YouTube videos lead to arrest of seven people'. I nearly shat my pants when I read that. So you can now get arrested because of a YouTube video? According to the report, the police "received information on Monday about two large fights that occurred on Oct. 27 and 28." This is where the situation gets to me. Did the police actively go out searching YouTube videos for proof of the fight? Were they informed of the video posted online? Or did they just happen upon it? The post says the officers "found" the video, so that leads me to believe they went out to search for the video.

The video was obviously taken by somebody who was not actively involved in the fight (I'm guessing. I tried to find it online but couldn't find it). Now if the video was posted by somebody who was involved then I'd say they are pretty dumb for posting the evidence online themselves and they should get caught. But let's assume it was posted by a 3rd party not actively involved in the fight. Is searching YouTube for evidence legit? Yes, it's public and yes it's solid evidence of the fight, but it just doesn't seem right to me. Next thing you know, people will be getting arrested for updating their Facebook or Twitter status.

Most people have their online profiles set to private so employers can't see their drunk pictures, or so random people can't steal their information, or to just not get stalked. But now, it seems, you have to make your profile private to not get arrested (even though you should probably not put your illegal activities online). Although, most people do put illegal stuff on their Facebook page all the time. Think about underage drinking. How many people do you know have pictures of them drinking online? And how many of those people were underage at the time the picture was taken. If the police were to search through Facebook pictures, they could hand out a very large amount of MIPs.

-Billy Ray Tripp

EDIT: I think these are the videos. And I found another news source saying 13 people in total were arrested, including people watching.

EDIT 2: I change my mind after watching the videos. Clear the streets of these people.

EDIT 3: And they took the videos down. I knew I should have saved them...