Friday, October 22, 2010

Erin Andrews Peephole Video

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Last year, a nude video and photos of ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews went viral thanks to a creepy stalker who made a peephole video of her at a hotel. That stalker went to prison for 30 months, but the photos remain free — and accessible on various forums on the Internet.

Apparently, one of Andrews’s lawyers is still working to try to get them taken down. But a letter to gossip blog, The Dirty, had the opposite effect.

TMZ reported that lawyer Scott Carr emailed TheDirty.com a cease and desist letter this week, asking the site to take down the images and remove them from search engines, as they violate Andrews’s right to privacy. Carr also threatened the site with copy infringement for publishing the photos, indicating that Andrews now has legal ownership over them.

Erin Andrews Peephole Video: TheDirty has been sued many times before; past lawsuits include one filed by a Bengals cheerleader and one by a Texas woman — which resulted in a $1.5 million judgment. It’s possible that the site’s owner, Hooman Karamai an, just doesn’t care anymore about legal punishments. Because instead of taking Andrews’s photos down, he re-posted the 22 screenshots of Andrews today, redacting the naughtiest bits with “The Dirty” logo.

“Erin Andrews, can you ask your lawyers if this is the post they want me to take down because I am confused?” wrote Hooman Karamaian, who uses the alias Nik Richie. “Welcome back to reality… your fault.- nik.”

It’s unbelievably provocative and seems sure to result in another lawsuit for the site. If there were a driver’s license required to be on the Internet, as Microsoft executive Craig Mundie once suggested, Karamaian’s would certainly be taken away for this move.
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