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I suspect some of you have no idea how these things work, and are putting celeb sites in the same catagory as regular content thieves. Understand that celeb sites are not attacked by copyright owners, IE the movie studios, Maxim magazine, whatever. What has happened is that a coalition of money-grubbing fuckers lead by Perfect-10 magazine and Alyssa Milano's mom have been attempting to invent a legal precedence for people who DON'T own copyrights to sue.
At least, in theory. Of course, they don't actually sue since they don't have any legal ground to do so - that would be like porn models suing photographers when the photographers sell their pictures. What happens is that the sites are threatened, the billing companies buckle over and screw their customers rather than attempt to fight a potentially costly legal battle.
This is very similar to VISA putting the screws on adult content - celeb sites are to third party billing companies as adult sites are to VISA International - a drop in the bucket, not worth fighting over.
And before any of you jump on your high horse about illegality, post your URLs, and we can all see how many illegal things you're doing - free porn, explicit tours, whatever. God forbid we check your MP3 directories, because the next big thing is home ISPs dropping customers that trade illegal files. If you think your ISP is going to bother fighting a costly legal battle with the MPAA and RIAA over your right to traffic in copyrighted material, you've got another thing coming.
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