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  • 06-06-2007, 05:27 AM
    tunaboy2
    Picture of 17 Year Old Female Friend Being Used On Myspace To Advertise Pornography
    A very pretty female friend of mines picture is being used on a myspace profile, without her permission, to advertise pornography. She was 17 years old in the picture being used. Now she is 20. Whoever made the profile is obviously using a program to send out mass comments to people on their friends list advertising nude web cam shows. ... The girl herself lives in New York State. Does she have a case?
  • 06-06-2007, 05:34 AM
    aaron
    Re: Picture of 17 Year Old Female Friend Being Used On Myspace To Advertise Pornograp
    Given that the link you posted was your affiliate link for the porn site, I guess you were worried that your friend would sue you for using her picture?
  • 06-06-2007, 09:04 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Re: Picture of 17 Year Old Female Friend Being Used On Myspace To Advertise Pornograp
    If this were a real case, there would be an obvious misappropriation of the person's likeness, with possible legal remedies... if the culprit could be identified. But if the damages came from her "friends" plastering her name all over the web with porn links in their effort to "help" her, it becomes difficult to establish that she was damaged from the underlying act as opposed to the harm she and her friends brought on herself by distribuing the supposedly harmful information.

    I saw the original link. In my experience, nobody posts that type of affiliate link by accident.
  • 06-08-2007, 06:51 PM
    tunaboy4
    Re: Picture of 17 Year Old Female Friend Being Used On Myspace To Advertise Pornograp
    Before now I wasn't 100% sure what an affiliate link is. Until l read this. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/affiliate_link.html So I'm sorry for posting a link which was against the TOU. I'm doing this girl a favor because she's shy and probably wouldn't follow through with this on her own. I'm helping to find out if she has a case so she can sue the people responsible. Why would I help her to sue myself? I know Myspace logs the ip addresses when people upload pics. So that's one way to identify the culprit. Also how closley related are affiliates to the company that runs the sites? Is the web site liable for how affiliates use thier links? Basically I'd just like to know if it's worth telling my friend to contact and attorney and what's the best kind of attorney for this kind of case. Thank you very much for your answers and advice on the matter at hand.
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