Perez Hilton was out clubbing after he presented at the MuchMusic Video Awards last night. While inside the club, Fergie confronted him about his trashing her on his website.
Later on, he was confronted again by her bandmate, Will.I.Am. Perez called him a f*ggot and Will responded not to write about his band on Perez’s website anymore. Perez tweeted this message, stating that he was assaulted by Will.
TMZ has just released this video of the actual incident:
He plainly said that it was Will who assaulted him, yet it turns out, it was the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, Polo Molina.
I think Will needs to sue him for making a false accusation. What do you think?
Diddy (real name Sean Combs) posted a new video blog on his YouTube account today, this time letting everybody know does own a private jet that is registered under the name “Ciroc Obama,” but he only owns a wing on the plane.
This video is in response to reports that he doesn’t own a private jet, which followed the famous video that showed Diddy complaining he had to fly commercial because gas prices being too high.
The commercial wasn’t exactly for nipples, but Calvin Klein knew that the new ad for his fragrance had to push the envelope. American televisions will not be showing the ad that shows Eva Mendes naked and rolling around on a bed talking about love and madness.
The only thing stopping the ad for Secret Obsession from being aired in the US is a brief glimpse of Mendes’ nipple. The shot is brief and barely noticeable but censors won’t have it. The director for the ad was astonished at the snub.
“You must be kidding me. This country really needs a new president — this country is so messed up,” said Baron. “It’s such a joke and it’s quite upsetting, frankly, how hypocritical this country has become. It’s OK for children to see people killed by guns? Spreading a little love right now would be a good idea.
“She is being a little sexy, but they are not provocative,” added Baron. “They are really well done. The spot is really beautiful — I really can’t believe this is happening.…I don’t know what else to say.”
Eh, what’s a little nipple? I rather my kids see that than “The View.” Besides I think Eva Mendes naked is about as appealing as an ordinary commercial. The ad with the E-trades kid distracts you seconds after seeing her nipple for the 50th time anyway.
Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
A judge ordered YouTube to produce data on which of its videos get viewed most often and by whom.
U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips.
The data would not be publicly released but disclosed only to the plaintiffs, and it would include less specific identifiers than a user’s real name or e-mail address.
Lawyers for Google Inc., which owns YouTube, said producing 12 terabytes of data — equivalent to the text of roughly 12 million books — would be expensive, time-consuming and a threat to users’ privacy.
The database includes information on when each video gets played, which can be used to determine how often a clip is viewed. Attached to each entry is each viewer’s unique login ID and the Internet Protocol, or IP, address for that viewer’s computer.
Stanton ruled this week that the plaintiffs had a legitimate need for the information and that the privacy concerns are speculative.
Stanton rejected a request from the plaintiffs for Google to disclose the source code — the technical secret sauce — powering its market-leading search engine, saying there’s no evidence Google manipulated its search algorithms to treat copyright-infringing videos differently.
The court has yet to rule on Google’s requests to question comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Viacom’s Comedy Central.
source: YouTube ordered to reveal its viewers [cnn]
Kid Rock doesn’t care if you illegally download his music.
In an incredibly sarcastic YouTube message to the children, he also says it’s A.O.K. to steal from Apple, Microsoft, Toyota, the gas companies and even Tommy Hilfiger.
Not the brightest idea in the world, planting those types of seeds.
Viacom filed $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube’s ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.
Google’s lawyers made the claim in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as the company responded to Viacom Inc.’s latest lawsuit alleging that the Internet has led to “an explosion of copyright infringement” by YouTube and others.
The back-and-forth between the companies has intensified since Viacom brought its lawsuit last year, saying it was owed damages for the unauthorized viewing of its programming from MTV, Comedy Central and other networks, including such hits as “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
In papers submitted to a judge late Friday, Google said YouTube “goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works.”
It said that by seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for Internet communications, Viacom “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression.”
Google said YouTube was faithful to the requirements of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the federal law was intended to protect companies like YouTube as long as they responded properly to content owners’ claims of infringement.
On that score, Viacom says Google has set a terrible example.
In a rewritten lawsuit filed last month, Viacom said YouTube consistently allows unauthorized copies of popular television programming and movies to be posted on its Web site and viewed tens of thousands of times.
Viacom said it had identified more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of copyrighted programming — including “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “South Park” and “MTV Unplugged” episodes and the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” — that had been viewed “an astounding 1.5 billion times.”
The company said its count of unauthorized clips represents only a fraction of the content on YouTube that violates its copyrights.
It said Google and YouTube had done “little or nothing” to stop infringement.
“To the contrary, the availability on the YouTube site of a vast library of the copyrighted works of plaintiffs and others is the cornerstone of defendants’ business plan,” Viacom said.
Frankly, I think it’s all blown out of proportion. Most of what is perceived as copyright infringement could be simply chalked up to promotion. They should be glad we care enough.
source: YouTube suit called threat to online communication [yahoo news]
Meet Crystal, a sobbing 16-year-old sitting in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, she says she has been raped. As if that isn’t sad enough, the legal system won’t be prosecuting her attacker.
In the video uploaded on YouTube, Crystal says,
“Hi, my name is Crystal. … I need some help. I didn’t want to do it this way, but it’s the only way I know that’s going to work, that someone out there in the world is gonna listen to me.”
The teen, whom CNN interviewed but is not identifying by her last name, is among dozens of young people who are turning to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to talk about sexual assault.
For an online generation, the Web offers what traditional counseling does not. It’s a chance to communicate without having to face someone or fear their judgment. Some people are seeking legal advice and medical information, and many younger victims believe that they can warn others about their accused attacker, counselors say.
There also are people like Crystal, whose case was dropped by the Orange County, Florida, state attorney’s office, who feel slighted by the justice system.
“Young victims, particularly girls, turn inward. They are going to reach out and try to connect in the isolation of their dorm room or their bedrooms,” said Jennifer Dritt, the director of the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence. “Most young women feel like they want somebody to know that someone did this to them.”
Fewer than 5 percent of reported cases in Florida make it to a prosecutor’s office, Dritt said. Whether because of lack of forensic evidence or because many are he said/she said accounts, rape cases can be very difficult to try.
“What you hear from every rape crisis center from Pensacola to Key West is that there are hardly ever any prosecutions,” she said. “Most sexual violence is acquaintance rape, and unfortunately, a lot of juries still think that if a victim had a relationship with their attacker, then they cannot be raped by that person.”
Florida law states that a 15-year-old cannot give consent to sex. And though Crystal was 15 at the time of the alleged forced encounter, the prosecutor wrote that the case would not be prosecuted because Crystal was “a mere 1 month away” from turning 16, when it would be “legal to give consent,” according to documents.
A spokeswoman for the Orange County state attorney’s office declined to comment further.
See the part bolded above? As long as someone has at least met you once before, it’s ok for them to rape you — feel safer now? The worst part, the perpetrator was 23 and this poor girl was one month shy of 16.
We’re the YouTube Generation, living in the YouTube Era, in a YouTube World. And now we apparently have a YouTube Divorce.
Some prominent New York divorce lawyers couldn’t think of another case where a spouse - in this instance, the wife of a major Broadway theater operator - had taken to YouTube to spill the secrets of a marriage in an apparent effort to gain leverage and humiliate the other side.
“This is absolutely a new step, and I think it’s scary,” said Bonnie Rabin, a divorce lawyer who has handled high-profile cases. “People used to worry about getting on Page Six (the gossip page of the New York Post). But this? It brings the concept of humiliation to a whole new level.”
In a tearful and furious YouTube video with close to 150,000 hits to date, former actress and playwright (”Bonkers”) Tricia Walsh-Smith lashes out against her husband, Philip Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway.
She goes through their wedding album on camera, describing family members as “bad” or “evil” or “nasty,” and talks about how her husband is allegedly trying to evict her from their luxury apartment. She also makes embarrassing claims regarding their intimate life, and then calls his office on camera to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.
Famed divorce attorney Raoul Felder, called for comment on the video, termed the whole thing “funny, but there’s also sadness. This is a victim who is holding her head up. I think she comes off well.”
Then again, Felder allowed that he is now representing Walsh-Smith - though he wasn’t when she made the YouTube video.
As for Smith, his office said he had no comment and his lawyers said they didn’t, either - “other than that we’re kind of appalled.”
Here is a peek at the X-Files 2 Movie. Ok so the trailer isn’t the highest of quality but beggars can’t be choosers! The movie poster looks hot.
The film releases July 25th this year. The title is still in the works.
Fox and Chris Carter are still squabbling over it. “I know what I want it to be, but Fox has ideas of their own,” Carter told the Paley crowd. “I know what it should be.”
After swearing off recreational drugs and booze Steve-O is seeking the net to pull him through his issues that led him to suicidal thoughts. After claiming his mother gave him alcohol as a child, which is believable by the video below, he is seeking the path of sobriety.
On this path he decided to wax poetic about the world of astronomy and his choice to self rehabilitate.
It’s Time To Stop Lying And Cheating…
It’s time to stop doing anything that you don’t want
everyone, and I mean, literally, everyone, to know
that you have done. Call it a hunch, but, I believe
that the time for us humans to be seeing through only
two eyes and thinking with individual minds is
EXTREMELY limited (i.e. only until 2012, when the Age
Of Aquarius Begins). Here is something that I just
read on the Internet while doing Higher Power research
for rehab
“The time for us humans to be seeing through only two eyes…” How many freak-shows does he know that have more than two eyes?
What Others Said:
The Rad Report- Please! Take His Internet Away! Noooooo! Internet in rehab is baaaaad.
The commercial that threatened the well protected bubble of conservative television remains in tact. After Janet Jackson whipped out her floppy boob a few years ago the censors and rules of the game have become strict and raised the bar on boring.
Danica Patrick did a spot for GoDaddy that mentioned the word “beaver.” GASP! The commercial was rejected by FOX network for the slang terminology for lady bits. The ad featured stuffed beavers, as in the woodland creature, while Danica unzipped her jacket and giving the camera come-hither eyes. GoDaddy actually benefited from the axed deal. They managed to keep their spot and run the commercial solely on their website. The ad that aired on FOX directed you to the nearest internet access to get a full view. Being that we lack morals around here, we proudly accept beavers.
I hate to sound like an 80 year old man talking about the hazaa of the good ol’ times, but Super Bowl commercials just aren’t what the used to be. There was a plethora of mediocre ads that failed to make me get that warm tingly Super Bowl commercial love. However, there were a few worthy of mention.
“Mouse Trap”- Doritos
Finally something clever among the masses of crap. Who doesn’t love a guy in a giant mouse costume? Best of the commercials this year easily.
“Baby and a Creepy Clown”- E-Trade
Clowns totally freak my freak. Who knew E-Trading could be so….oddly funny.
“Students”- Bud Light
Foreigners are always funny. The advert was just one of many beer commercials.
“Jump Start”- Amp
Salt and Peppa! Can I get a holla! Seriously, nipples and a plump fellow getting his swerve on…yes!
“Will Ferrell”-Bud Light
Suck one! Priceless. I love the honky man-fro. This is actually one of those dual ads. Bud Light gets pimped along with Will’s new movie “Semi-Pro.”
“Justin Timberlake”- Pepsi
I enjoyed this one because…well…anyone getting racked in the sack (that is not you of course) is pure entertainment. The fact that it was Timberlake was just a little bonus.
“The Godfather”- Audi
It’s one of the more ingenious ads amongst the blah filled downtime of the football game.
“Carville and the Cokes”- Coke (As in Cola)
It is very James Carville meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
“Talking Stain”- Tide
It’s one of those things that is only funny because it is true. It also sounds Steve Carell in the form of a coffee stain.
“What Is Love”- Pepsi Commercial
This one is worthy due to the simple fact that Chris Kattan makes a cameo at the very end. While the ad itself is rather old hat and lacks a real Super Bowl commercial quality, everyone has seen “Night at the Roxbury.”
The Worst Ad
Among the many, many candidates for this position is the Under Armor ad. It was like a better dressed version of “The Matrix.” I continually looked for Keanu Reeves to pop out and be like…”Neo’s back bitches! I always thought I looked fab in red.”
It really must suck to be so swarmed by photographers that you can’t even walk to your car because they’re physically blocking you. Well, that’s what bodyguards are for. Here’s Lindsay Lohan waiting for her car, stalked by the paparazzi. When one of them kick her, her bodyguard responds with a swift kick to the balls. Damn! Don’t mess with Lindsay.
Source: “Lohan bodyguard kicks cameraman in the balls” [Damn I'm Cute]
After she married Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes changed more than just her personal life. She’s changed in her professional life as well. Instead of signing up for the second installment of “Batman Returns” opposite Christian Bale, she opted for the wacky crime caper “Mad Money” opposite Queen Latifah. Hmmmm ….
I’m just sayin’, she gave up Batman for this box office bust? I just don’t get it. You can see the movie in its entirety January 18.
Source: “Watch Katie Holmes’ New Movie Trailer “ [Us Weekly]
A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop star Prince, sparking a lawsuit that could test the boundaries of U.S. copyright law.
Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family’s rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.
In the video, the child is seen bouncing and swaying for the camera, as, faintly, the Prince hit “Let’s Go Crazy” plays on a CD player in the background.
Twenty eight people, mostly friends and family, had viewed the YouTube video by June, when mom Stephanie Lenz said she received an e-mail from YouTube informing her that her video had been removed from the site at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, the recording industry’s largest label, and warning her that future copyright infringements on her part could force the Web site to cancel her account.
Then responds the mother:
The mother has filed a civil suit against the pop star, claiming they were abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by sending out reams of what are known in the industry as “take down notices” to Web sites like YouTube, claiming their artists’ copyrights had been infringed upon — when in fact, sometimes they may not have been at all.
source: The Home Video Prince Doesn’t Want You to See [abc news]
“This is absolutely a new step, and I think it’s scary,” said Bonnie Rabin, a divorce lawyer who has handled high-profile cases. “People used to worry about getting on Page Six (the gossip page of the New York Post). But this? It brings the concept of humiliation to a whole new level.”
In the video, the child is seen bouncing and swaying for the camera, as, faintly, the Prince hit “Let’s Go Crazy” plays on a CD player in the background.
