Jennifer Lawrence pictures

[Guest]

Remind me: why were these 'stars' having nude photographs taken, if it wasn't for self-publicity?

Private photos taken on private phones as part of private sex lives and shared with the most intimate of personal acquaintances. What part of that says 'publicity' to you?

 

This was an example of thieves grubbing about in a supposedly secure and private storage facility for the most intimate and private details of a person's life, then facilitating and perpetuating their distribution.

 

If you must indulge in victim blaming, do so for the naivety of their apparent implicit trust in online security and/or their lack of understanding of technology.

[muddywolf]

Fair enough, it's still a free country but as I asked earlier... why do people still risk it "after so many stories of them being leaked by hackers or vindictive exes?"

 

Maybe simply a case of 'wouldn't happen to me', I don't doubt though that secretly they don't actually mind it, no news is bad news eh if it keeps them in the lime light.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Private photos taken on private phones as part of private sex lives and shared with the most intimate of personal acquaintances. What part of that says 'publicity' to you?

 

This was an example of thieves grubbing about in a supposedly secure and private storage facility for the most intimate and private details of a person's life, then facilitating and perpetuating their distribution.

 

If you must indulge in victim blaming, do so for the naivety of their apparent implicit trust in online security and/or their lack of understanding of technology.

You're wrong on so many points.

1. I did not blame any 'victims'.

2. I and you have no idea where the photographs were taken nor with whom they were shared.

3. I did not justify theft of private material.

 

BUT

You yourself did not actually answer my question. Try to, eh? And remove your own reference to 'naked', too.

 

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They weren't "having" nude photos taken, they were self-taken pictures. It's fairly common among youngsters nowadays I believe.

Please explain the point.

[muddywolf]

Remind me: why were these 'stars' having nude photographs taken, if it wasn't for self-publicity?

 

 

Plenty of people see it as art, beauty, natural, maybe they were taken to capture the moment of such things? Not everything has to be viewed as porn or sordid.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Plenty of people see it as art, beauty, natural, maybe they were taken to capture the moment of such things? Not everything has to be viewed as porn or sordid.

Good point. So- if the photographs are art/beauty/natural and aren't porn/sordid- why all the kerfuffle?

[muddywolf]

Good point. So- if the photographs are art/beauty/natural and aren't porn/sordid- why all the kerfuffle?

 

Because they were still private? Obtained by false pretenses, identity theft or whichever means comes to light.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

The problem is that we have no ideas how they were obtained nor by whom nor under which jurisdiction the offender might be nabbed. Still: merely creating the photographs creates a risk. The obvious solution is not to!

[muddywolf]

The problem is that we have no ideas how they were obtained nor by whom nor under which jurisdiction the offender might be nabbed. Still: merely creating the photographs creates a risk. The obvious solution is not to!

 

Very true, but the same could be said about theft of anything. Avoid buying a car so no one can steal it?

[Guest]

...1. I did not blame any 'victims'. ...

Excellent.

...2. I and you have no idea where the photographs were taken nor with whom they were shared. ...

At least two of the victims of the hack have issued statements indicating that the images were taken by their respective partners. Others have responded to the invasion of privacy by initiating contact with the appropriate agencies in attempts to remove the images from the internet and to prosecute those who stole and distributed them.

...3. I did not justify theft of private material. ...

I didn't say you did.

...BUT

You yourself did not actually answer my question. Try to, eh?...

It's in that first paragraph. Go on, have another look.

...And remove your own reference to 'naked', too.

The one in my signature that's completely unrelated to the content of my posts? Why should I remove it?

[James Gold]

celebs really are fair game in many eyes. Don't forget all the benefits celebrity brings. Yes there are negatives but I think they are out weighed. It is still wrong to show those pictures but that is the world we live in.