He should be prosecuted. Stealing, whether it be software, art, someone else's creativity, a tangible item like your car, is all the same. It is stealing and it is a crime.
I do not understand your mentality of trying to stop the individual from doing it but not prosecuting it. Just stop the criminal from getting into my house, but, poor soul, don't send him to jail!

I, too, am an artist and have also worked for a media conglomerate myself, but my view differs from the comment above. I believe that the day of reckoning has come for many of the media giants, which I don't think will be a bad thing. The days of premiers with high price tagged commercials will soon be long gone. Fox should be honored that 24 was hot enough so many years after its pilot to draw someone to bootleg it and risk prosecution. While I do believe that the line between fraudulence and intellectual property has been blurred, I doubt that arresting a broke college kid or computer geek will do little more than spawn backlash toward the network and fill YouTube will a barrage of parody videos. Many of the major media networks---as well as Hollywood---need to come up with a better strategy to deal with web 2.0 than "whining to the principal." Open source and web 2.0 are just some ideologies that will take getting used to...all of us.

They shouldn't fight this because it will lead nowhere. Who in their right mind would open a YouTube (or any other such account) using their real information, if they intended on posting pirated works??? I give the human race a wee bit of credit to realize that if you could get caught doing something you shouldn't, you cover your tracks... If the poster of the video had half a brain (which I assume that he did) then all Fox would probably get is an IP address and a fake name that leads nowhere.