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Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
It's one thing if a female celebrity chooses to pose naked or have pics posted or whatnot, but this is an extreme invasion of privacy.
http://boston.barstoolsports.com/
LOS ANGELES, July 17 /PRNewswire/ – With respect to recent Internet postings of Erin Andrews, she has authorized her attorney, Marshall B. Grossman of Bingham McCutchen LLP, to issue the following statement:
“While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future. Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material. We request respect of Erin’s privacy at this time, while she and her representatives are working with the authorities.”
SOURCE Bingham McCutchen LLP
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Apparently someone has started a little investigation on the matter.
http://donchavez.com/blog/2009/07/17/wh … el-videos/
Earlier today during last call I implied that there was something brewing in Bristol. I thought this whole ordeal would blow over until at least Monday. Clearly that’s not the case as I’ve never been compelled to write a post on a Friday night at 11:30.
While to most of the world, these Erin Andrews videos are “new”. That’s not the case whatsoever. These videos have been sitting on Dailymotion.com for over 4 months. So for anyone claiming that these videos were “leaked” in coincidence with the now famous ESPY dress, you’re just plain wrong.
These videos have been sitting on the Internet, widely available to anyone willing to click on the video tab in Google after searching “Erin Andrews” with safe search turned off.
How these videos flew under the radar for so long is beyond me, beyond the fact that nobody had a concrete source for the videos or could verify that the videos were indeed of Erin Andrews.
That all changed today when ESPN’s general counsel sent and email to NSFWPOA.com requesting to take the videos down. Jaws dropped as this was basically an acknowledgment that the videos were of Erin Andrews.
In the late afternoon Deadspin ran a piece on the videos and the email from ESPN, and then something peculiar happened. Erin Andrews released a statement via her lawyers, that she was indeed in the videos and going to rain Hell on the source.
So now we’re left with questions, and lots of them. If you’ve seen the videos or screen caps, you’ll realize that yes it resembles her but the quality is so poor that if they were not acknowledged it would have been passed off as a sophomoric Internet prank.
So now in the spirit of getting right to the point and saving everyone time and money, I’ll tell you what I have found - and what nobody else is reporting yet.
It appears that the videos were posted on Dailymotion.com by username “Goblazers1″ as early as February 17, 2009. I’ve tried to get a response from this user and they haven’t responded, and given the current threat of legal issues coming their way I doubt anyone will ever hear from this person.
So my gut instinct based on the username is that this person is a Portland Trailblazers fan. So the next question is has Erin ever been in the Portland, Oregon area? Yes. She was there in 2008 for the USC-Oregon State football game on September 25, 2008.
However, that is a pretty generic username. Could there be another place where someone would root for a Blazer? Try the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers. While Andrews probably didn’t cover a Blazers game, the ESPN College Gameday crew was in Alabama for the week 5 Tennessee-Auburn tilt and the week 14 Auburn-Alabama game. Both of these games, and their surrounding hotels, are in Blazer Country.
Sure you might think I’m going on all assumptions here, but some of the videos on Daily Motion are geotagged. Some are tagged with Atlanta, some are tagged with an obscure college outside Waco, Texas and others are geotagged, ahem, right outside of Montgomery, Alabama. [see screen shots below]
So if the Erin Andrews wrecking crew is looking for a place to start, I recommend checking the hotel records for her recent stays in the Montgomery area. Get the room number, the employee records, and so on. This case should be closed by next week.
Update: In some of the videos the source code has “Erin Andrews” in it, implying that the original files were named something along the lines of erin-andrews-view-in-original-forma_sexy.wmv. This is what was picked up by Google and one of the reasons why this video the video shows up in the Google Video search tab.
- tejastech08
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Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Blah. Like stated in this article, had she kept her mouth shut nobody would have even knew the video existed. Just checked some sports blogs(where apparently she is worshiped), and it was getting almost zero attention there as well.
So she does the only thing that will bring it attention.....let the world know it exists so her name will reach the top of a google search and the twittering zombies will talk about it day after day until the next story hits.
I would have felt sorry for her had she not taken any action and this story just randomly popped up. The whole thing was buried until she mentioned it, and she's going the same route other celebs go when sex tapes/nude pics surface, she's embracing it for the sake of her own career.
First I heard of this woman, and I hope its the last.
By the way, haven't seen the pics/vid, nor do I care to. The less attention it gets, the better. Her fans should feel the same. If it still gets no attention, she'll stomp around like a kid having a hissy fit and will have some nerds upload it in pristine quality for the masses.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
A guy in my town just got caught placing hidden cameras in women's dressing rooms & bathrooms for his own peeping tom website. I hope they hang him, but I know they won't. I feel bad for Erin Andrews & if I were her, or she were my wife, I'd want the people who did this prosecuted as well.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Oh i've heard of Erin Andrews.
She's a babe, totally.
And I agree with James. Nobody knew of this. If I had, i'd been all over it. But by doing this, they are actually using it for publicity to try and get her name out there, don't even worry about it.
I'm kind of in a gray area with alot of this. I think in reality, alot of these people do not want these things out there, whether by accident, or a full on sex tape. But at the same time, IF it's gonna be leaked, why not use it? It's just smart business.
Remember, almost EVERYONE involved in the entertainment business, including sportscasting, are there for money, glory, or both.
Anyways, I think she's a babe. If you want to talk about it more, you can find me at my blog, http://blazersnumber1.blogspot.com
- monkeychow
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Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Yeah i hadn't heard of her either.
I can see both sides of it, like on one hand, if you are already famous then using this kind of thing can make you sky rocket. Or the video is so crap quality that they could of pulled off the shaggy "it wasn't me" defence.
Then again on a human level, not too many real life women I know would be happy to know that the entire world can see them in the nude and knows what pubic grooming they've got. I mean seriously...most girls I know would go mental if a video like this of them was on the net. So i can see why she'd call the cops/laywers too....i would if it was my wife etc.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
James Lofton wrote:First I heard of this woman.
ditto...i thought it was jsut me..just so i ge tthis straight...its a 6 second video that is causing such an uproar?
thats all i could find anyway
It's a 7 second video of her in the buff, full frontal in her hotel room where someone set up a camera through the peep hole to record her. I'd say that's a pretty mean spirited thing to do.
I agree if she hadn't commented on it, people probably wouldn't have known if it was her or not, but I'm not convinced that the story just would've gone away. I'm surprised some of you don't know her, or haven't heard of her. She's probably the hottest sideline reporter in the biz. She does mostly college sports (football) on ESPN. If you've ever watched a game, I'm sure you've seen her. She's quite nice to look at.
