‘Knowingly committed a crime’: Woman in China secretly filming celebrity faces online criticism for payment demand for downed drone

Woman who sent drone up to secretly film a livestreaming event has craft knocked out of sky by video team. She demands payment for damage, is refused and receives widespread criticism on social media for trying to justify behaviour. — SCMP

The story of a woman who demanded 3,000 yuan (US$400) in compensation from a livestream filming team who knocked her drone out of the sky as she tried to secretly video them working has outraged mainland social media.

The unidentified woman, who was travelling in the Sayram Lake scenic area of Xinjiang province in northwestern China, tried to use her drone to get a sneak peak of the filming, but the livestreamers took it down, according to a report by Star Video.