Los Angeles - Fox has served Google's YouTube video-sharing service a subpoena demanding the identity of a user who uploaded episodes of the network's "24" and "The Simpsons."

First reported by Google Watch, the subpoena was granted by a U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of California.

The YouTube user in question, "ECOtotal," uploaded episodes of "24" before their actual broadcast premieres; the user's account has been suspended by YouTube.

Fox also served a similar subpoena to LiveDigital, another video-sharing site.

The Hollywood Reporter noted that reports that the same TV episodes had appeared on file-sharing sites surfaced before Fox filed its subpoena requests.

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http://tinyurl.com/2ssbud (Hollywood Reporter)
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/index.html
http://www.livedigital.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ECOtotal