Perezhilton.com shut down for copyright issues
While many people still think the internet is uncontrolled and unwatched, it’s getting harder and harder to have a popular website while you breach some copyright laws. From my personal point of view, it’s worst for sites hosted on US servers – other countries still don’t watch these legal problems so carefully, but it’s getting tighter every month. We also receive tens or may be even hundreds of mails every month because of NewTorrents, and although we are not hosted in the USA so we aren’t obligated to listen to those requestes filled under DMCA law, we actually delete almost every requested torrent (well our ISP does if we don’t do it anyway). Reuploading the very same release in some different torrent is the other thing. 
I’ve also received few emails requesting content removal of some posts here at Releaselog, but I denied them all – we are a clearly informative site with 0 bytes of copyrighted material and therefore I don’t see any persuasive reason why should we delete posts from here.
A popular blogger known as Perez Hilton has similar problems recently. His Sydney based hosting company received a whole bunch of similar mails from one of the biggest photo agencies. The Web site was down for several hours Tuesday, and by Wednesday was back up but being hosted by a different Internet service provider, but without all the articles, as noone probably made the database backups. The gossip columnist, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, is the target of several lawsuits by paparazzi and others who claim he posts their photos and video content on his site without permission. Celebrity photographers make hundreds of thousands of dollars selling exclusive images to magazines and Web sites each year. The agencies that have sued Lavandeira say he has refused to pay fees to license the photos, claiming he has a right as a journalist to use the images for free. Los Angeles photo agency X17 Inc. sued Lavandeira in federal court last year, asking for $7.6 million in damages. The suit claimed Hilton used 51 photographs without permission, payment or credit, including images of a pregnant Katie Holmes, Kevin Federline pumping gas and Britney Spears. The case wasn’t decide yet. Anyway, it’s pretty much same as with enforceing someone to shut down his (illegal) site. Although MPAA probably doesn’t agree with this, 2 or more other sites will pop out when you close something, so it’s really just about the time. And the warez scene is a pretty good proof of that theory…
Comments(19)
Stupid! copyright? hahaha kiss my ass.
‘The suit claimed Hilton used 51 photographs without permission, payment or credit, including images of a pregnant Katie Holmes, Kevin Federline pumping gas and Britney Spears.’
I just don’t get this. How much money do Katie Holmes, Kevin Federline ect. get for having their pics used?
If I take an unauthorized picture (cause I doubt the celebrity involved will sign a release) it becomes my property? And if someone else puts it up on the internet, I can sue them for MY property?
Does that mean I could take an unflattering pic of someone famous, and then, instead of selling the exclusive right to a magazine, I could instead sell the exclusive rights to that celebrity? Uh… Isn’t that called blackmail?
Ya, famous people make a ton of money and it’s hard to feel sorry for them (*waves to Paris Hilton) but this kind fucked.
This post is misleading. perezhilton.com is still online.
Kevin, try to read it again please, your brain is misleading you too.
“.. and by Wednesday was back up”
DA INTERWEBS POLIZE!!1!1!!!1!!11!!1!!
copyright .. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
Good one Pitboy
Martin: I meant the post title is misleading. And it is. Perezhilton.com is not shut down.
A better title might be “perezhilton.com temporarily closed due to copyright violations”
“including images of a pregnant Katie Holmes, Kevin Federline pumping gas and Britney Spears”
KEVIN FEDERLINE PUMPING BRITNEY SPEARS?!?! AIGH!
The MPAA and the American media are controlled by Jews. If Hitler succeeded when he had the chance we wouldn’t have to worry about these cunts.
Jeff, you are the stupidest person in the world. Like your fucking beloved Hitler. He lost the war because he sucks like every other motherfucking racist. You are jealous of Jews because they are more successful than you. So you just blame them for all of your problems. It’s just so much easier to blame the Jews than realize that your life sucks because of you and you being a racist idiot. I’m surprised you even managed to post here. Did you use a calculator? I’m sure you did.
he is right though, the american media is ran by the jews, you cant deny that nadavz…. thats not rascism, just fact
@ jeff and @ justin:
I want to believe you guys, but can u prove it?
Well…I think that everything that is “reachable” on the internet, that means that you can get it without forcing anything, is public information so public share.
And well..that’s right that if you wanna make it public again, than you should at least mention the source site, but usually nobody does that for some reasons.
lol @ Kevin Federline pumping gas AND Britney Spears.
@Ejek
http://www.theunjustmedia.com/who_runs_the_media.htm
@ jeff and @ justin: why not put all the jew’s in gas chambers like your beloved hitler did?
“Are there any queers in the theatre tonight
Get ‘em up against the wall
That one looks Jewish
And that one’s a coon
Who let all this riff raff into the room
There’s one smoking a joint and
Another with spots
If I had my way I’d have all of you shot”
I totally agree with Pitboy. And please be nice to the jews, people
Perezhilton is fucking over the paparazzi, who ever does not think this is good is just another typical american coward.
Order of scum:
paparazzi
MPAA
RIAA
Most the americans who post here do rimjobs on barry bonds asshole.
Martin you are in the wrong.. the post title would give the impression that PerezHilton.com has closed permanently when infact its still online. You should have kept the topic relevant by putting that first paragraph about RLSLOG later (any excuse to plug RLSLOG ..*yawn* whens that going to get old?) and moving the paragraph about PH first. Next time re-label it something more approrpiate like “Perezhilton.com changes servers” which is all that it really was about and given that it was in the media like 4/5 days ago – please dont post OLD news.