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Meet Kim O鈥機onnor, the woman who filmed a boy fall into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo 鈥 moments before the animal was shot dead. Kim had no intention of making a profit at the time, but three months later she has made tens of thousands of dollars by licensing the clip to a specialist agency. We delve into the world of viral video trading, speaking to the people who acquire and sell viral footage 鈥 some of it entertaining, some of it tragic 鈥 as well as the news organisations (the 麻豆社 included) that buy it. Photo caption: Aftermath of the Shoreham Airshow Crash / Photo credit: Peter Macdiarmid, Getty.
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