Fappening Celebrities Threaten To Sue Google

[TopWargamer]

Google can't remove things from 4Chan...

My goodness, use your heads people.

[TAK]

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[techswede]

If they win this im definately suing too  

[Techhog]

There people are not the smartest hammers in the shed. If they had only taken an hour to read how their product/service works, then another hour to read how internet works and about Streisand effect. Then maybe they would've told their significant other (or whoever they were taking these pics for) to shove it, when they ask them for pics.

 

And if you still feel the need and this happens, own up to it: "Yeah, that's me/who I'm banging, jealous?" and move on.

 

These are just naked people, most of who have already exposed themselves in the name of "art" (seriously using that term very, very, loosely when it comes to anything these people are involved with). We can see porn on the internet any time we want, just cos these people are celebrities shouldn't really make that much of a difference. Just another bunch of naked people, just some of them have more money than the people doing porn and apparently more respectful occupation.

When you consider the fact that many US politicians are former lawyers, this explains why net neutrality is dead here.

[Tocsin_786]

pretty much an exact copy of the Right to be Forgotten

 

now in the US Legal System

 

I really hope the US courts aren't as stupid with their verdict

idk man. money makes people stupid...

[MrSpeed]

Sureee
good luck with that, idiots

[mr moose]

If they succeed I am going to sue google for failing to cure cancer and stop world poverty.

 

 

Now you're victim blaming Apple. :rolleyes: Apple never asked to have their systems/services attacked. This is the fault of the attackers, not Apple.

 

Also, straight from the iCloud EULA:

 

APPLE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND APPLE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERETO. http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/terms.html

 

Either I missed something or that was added after the breach. I have only recently (august) searched the EULA for such terms and they did not return any results for attacking, hacking or security.

[babbaj]

Becuase its possible to remove something from the internet 

 

I'm not saying it's their fault that their personal property was stolen...

Shit passwords

[Mooshi]

I went through a very, and I mean VERY bitter break up with an ex years ago. We're talking ultimate betrayal, talks of marriage all going to shit and so on. I had very intimate photos and videos of her. And they stayed away from any server. I do a way better job at not leaking nudes than a Billion dollar company. That really speaks volumes. Paper thin security vulnerable to basic brute force methods and trust to complete strangers to keep tabs of your private photos was their downfall. We can point fingers all we want, it still doesn't change the fact lack of personal responsibility and acting like entitled babies are the core of this issue.

[79wjd]

Shit passwords

Even the most secure password is a shit password....so 

[Builder]

I'm not saying it's their fault that their personal property was stolen...but seriously, you shouldn't have anything you don't want to get out on any electronic device with an internet connection -- especially if you're famous and have a massive following of potential people who want to target you. 

I'm not saying it's their fault...but it kinda is.

 

Paper thin security vulnerable to basic brute force methods and trust to complete strangers to keep tabs of your private photos was their downfall. 

But it wasn't done through brute forcing, it was social engineering.

 

Even the most secure password is a shit password....so 

Uhh...no.

https://xkcd.com/936/

[babbaj]

Even the most secure password is a shit password....so

So if a password takes a million years to crack it's shit?

[Snickerzz]

why didnt any male noods leak D: wheres all the gay hackers

[RexinOridle]

The FUCK does Google has to do with these?

[Vacsol]

by the logic they're using, Google profits from war, natural disasters and from the holocaust.

just because Google will link to something a user searches for, doesn't mean they're responsible for it.

 

The Fappening was really shitty for the celebrities who have had their privacy invaded, but they can't blame anyone except the people who went out of their way to distribute the images.

[zacRupnow]

You can't sue over this, the violating party is unknown.

[Vacsol]

You can't sue over this, the violating party is unknown.

they can sue anyone who distributes their copyrighted images for a profit. and since they took the picture, it is their copyrighted intellectual property

[Guest]

First off, Google didn't host the images.

 

Second, it wasn't like someone went in and hacked into iCloud, and essentially could just scroll through at their pleasure. They had to have known the emails, and then brute-forced or somehow phished the passwords from the celebrities' accounts.

[Guest]

why didnt any male noods leak D: wheres all the gay hackers

LOL

 

Because most people on the internet looking for nude photos aren't women / gay men.

[pk-man]

This is what google should do in response:

 

tell them they now have all the pictures "back in their possession"

[zacRupnow]

they can sue anyone who distributes their copyrighted images for a profit. and since they took the picture, it is their copyrighted intellectual property

Google is not a distrutor and the leak was from iCloud and Apple's terms of use state that anything done, put on, or created using an Apple products is the property of Apple. The users can't sue, Apple can

[Techhog]

they can sue anyone who distributes their copyrighted images for a profit. and since they took the picture, it is their copyrighted intellectual property

That's like saying that an atlas distributes countries.

[pmarion427]

are they dumd? no seriously, do they really think the internet can be managed and things removed from it? and not even suing the right company -.-

[Imabigmac]

This is what google should do in response:

tell them they now have all the pictures "back in their possession"

Actually, that might work

[Blade of Grass]

they can sue anyone who distributes their copyrighted images for a profit. and since they took the picture, it is their copyrighted intellectual property

I don't believe they can. I think that Google is protected under the same law that Web hosts are - you cannot be held liable for your user's content.

If they pursue this, I hope Google gets their case thrown out on the grounds that Web hosts are not liable for user content.