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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a big case in the US courts about a newscaster who had a nude video taken of her by a stalker who removed the peephole in the door. The video made it to the internet. She claims damages against the hotel chain, not against the guy who took the video.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This whole thing brings up a number of questions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>Why does she think her exposed nudity is really worth 75 million bucks?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>What if she had been an ordinary person like you and me: is our nudity worth 75 million, or does it need to be scaled somehow?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> How? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> Is there some kind of universal hotness scale?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> Do hotties get more if they are recorded nude than coldies or tepidies?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> How much more?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> Can a person be so bone-deep ugly that such a video is worth zero point nada?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> Is the payout proportional to the number of internet hits?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> Why?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>As we brought up a decade ago: it would be eeeeeasy easy to hide a video device in a hotel room, almost completely without risk. It could be set up to receive a call and turn on at any time, and Skype the video to any remote receiver, with very little risk of getting caught and not much cost really. So are we now saying the hotel chain is responsible for find that? In the meantime, are we cool with it that all assured privacy in any public place, any public restroom and any hotel room is <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>now gone? Could we not argue that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy there?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>