With all due respect, I grew up in the 70s. I did a lot of stupid things back then, in public; and never had the thought that I'd actually sue anyone over my own behaviour.Dealt with the negative consequences myself; and got over them.
It's called taking responsibility for one's own actions; which seems to be a dying "ideology" in this country.
Shit like this just makes more work for more of the children being programmed by lawyer degrees.
So the next time I'm up at the Rushmore monument, I'll make sure to get consent forms from any of the dozens of random strangers who may be in the frame of my camera lens.
Are you an idiot, or a lawyer? (Not that the two are mutually incompatible)
Anybody who acts out in public has no reasonable expectation of privacy under the law. If you don't like that, then don't get drunk and do stupid things in public.
Whether or not their identities should be made available to the media in the court case is entirely different matter which has little or nothing to bear on their public display of idiocy. "Modeling release forms" don't bear on this case as it was not apparently a formal video, but something done in a public arena.
The "hidden camera voyeurism" issue doesn't apply here, either - it applies to places where the victims have a reasonable right to privacy, as in restrooms and more private settings.
I haven't seen the video (nor do I have any intention of watching it, I grew up decades ago), nor am I associated with the porn industry in any way, but I do know that anything I do in a bar or other legally public setting is something I can claim a right to privacy for. That's just plain ridiculous.
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It's called taking responsibility for one's own actions; which seems to be a dying "ideology" in this country.
Shit like this just makes more work for more of the children being programmed by lawyer degrees.
GSVEMR
Re: Re: Parents granted them autonomy.
But that's wishing for fishes.
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Re: Re: Oh, please
So the next time I'm up at the Rushmore monument, I'll make sure to get consent forms from any of the dozens of random strangers who may be in the frame of my camera lens.
Are you an idiot, or a lawyer? (Not that the two are mutually incompatible)
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Oh, please
Anybody who acts out in public has no reasonable expectation of privacy under the law. If you don't like that, then don't get drunk and do stupid things in public.
Whether or not their identities should be made available to the media in the court case is entirely different matter which has little or nothing to bear on their public display of idiocy. "Modeling release forms" don't bear on this case as it was not apparently a formal video, but something done in a public arena.
The "hidden camera voyeurism" issue doesn't apply here, either - it applies to places where the victims have a reasonable right to privacy, as in restrooms and more private settings.
I haven't seen the video (nor do I have any intention of watching it, I grew up decades ago), nor am I associated with the porn industry in any way, but I do know that anything I do in a bar or other legally public setting is something I can claim a right to privacy for. That's just plain ridiculous.
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