Website legal help
I need a little help. I have a friend who's relative is a famous actress in another country. Unfortunately, fame comes with its prices and usually follows up with her face on someone elses boobs and her name being draped around in porn sites. Is there anyone with knowledge of this or any sites you can recommend to try and stop them? We are going to try and get rid of these pictures and shut down sites using her name negatively but it is difficult to find information on legal sites without 800 porn sites popping up. I want to know the legalities behind this and if we have any chance of shutting any of these sites down. Any advice would be greatly appreciated?
Thanks... Bubba
Busy posted this at 23:32 — 18th July 2003.
He has: 6,151 posts
Joined: May 2001
Hi and welcome to TWF
I'm not in the legal field but I doubt you'd have much luck with closing them down. In fact I think if you make a stink about it, it could actually get worse.
File sharing programs are probably to blame as they spread junk like wild fire.
One thing you could do, get as many free file sharing programs as you can (kaaza etc) and search for your friends name (as many ways as possible), download the images, rename a decent picture of her to suit what you have downloaded and let people download the good ones. It wont stop them and could be a full time job editing them but it would start getting some decent ones out there, the other way is to put Mr Beans picture with the downloaded filename.
good luck
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