Day Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 A 17-year-old Norwich City fan has angered the club by leaking pictures of its new kit 12 hours before the official launch. Norfolk Police were called in after IT student Chris Brown published images of the 2012-13 strip on the internet. Chris has apologised to the club, which said it would protect its intellectual property at all times. Police have said all parties had agreed the matter could be resolved through a "face-to-face" meeting. The teenager, from Norwich, managed to obtain the pictures from the club's kit launch website as it was being updated. He said he then posted the images on Twitter. In a statement Norfolk Police confirmed they had investigated an offence of unauthorised access to computer data, under the Computer Misuse Act, after being contacted by the football club. A police spokesman added: "It has subsequently been agreed by all parties that the matter can be resolved through a face-to-face meeting." The teenager said: "I'm sorry for any offence I might have caused to the club, but I would never do anything malicious or spiteful because I do have an interest and love the football club." The season ticket-holder, who has followed the team home and away since he was about 11 or 12 years old, said he was called by the football club at 04:30 BST on Wednesday after posting the new kit on Twitter and internet forums on Tuesday night. He said he was "shocked" to receive the telephone call, during which the club asked him how he obtained the pictures and where he had posted them. Chris told the BBC he was able to take the images from a section of the site that was being worked on, finding them linked from a file within the website's source code. Any computer user can view this through their internet browser. When asked by the BBC whether he thought posting the pictures was wrong, Chris said: "Not at first, maybe when I was getting retweets and mentions from people on Twitter that's when I sort of thought 'should I really have done this?', and I do regret it." His mother Trish Brown said: "I feel Norwich could have handled it better. "I feel they could have spoken to Chris and myself... and just discussed why he'd done it, asked him a few more questions, before involving the police." She added: "He knows he's probably done wrong by taking it a bit further, but that was just excitement to show other people what he had done." The club's chief executive David McNally said he had asked for a report into what happened. He said: "We are the guardians of the football club whilst we're here and so we will protect our property. "And our property in the digital age involves our intellectual property, so we won't allow anybody to come in and take it from us." Copyright infringement is only a criminal offence if someone makes money from it or causes the copyright owner serious damage. If that is not the case, it would be up to the club to take action - not the police. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-17767236#TWEET128858 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smyth_18 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 What a waste of police time. I suppose this will bring the inevitable question so i'll ask it first: Why is our kit always released so late? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Because we ain't got no clever 17 year olds to leak it to us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smyth_18 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Good point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Bit daft involving the coppers, I agree with his ma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Was only 12 hours before. And I bet its hardly any different to the one they've already got. Making a mountain out of a molehill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Daveo could do this easy. Our new kit is rubbish. 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Well what kind of kit they got then if it is so bloody big secret it requires coppers involved ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Who Norwich? Green and yellow, but that's a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 No wonder they called the cops for someone leaking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Norwich's IT departments fault for leaving source code available to the general public, if its on the internet its in the public domain, if you want to keep it private use proper security and don't rely on just hiding it in plain site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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