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Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website

An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes (sign up for free subscription) is reporting about a person who wrote about a prior relationship with a former Miss Vermont. He was ordered to remove any reference to the former Miss Vermont or the relationship by court order. This ruling has obvious implications for the First Amendment if allowed to stand. I wonder if I can get the same court order applied to my ex-girlfriends' websites." Read on to see what this has to do with Barbra Streisand.

An anonymous reader writes "A Silicon Valley millionaire, Ken Adelman, is being sued by Barbra Streisand for $50 million. Adelman photographed Streisand's sea-side Malibu mansion using a 6 megapixel Nikon digital camera from a helicopter flying over the Pacific Ocean. The photograph, along with over 12,000 other photographs, is part of an aerial photographic survey of the California coastline. This photographic database is intended for use by environmental and scientific research projects interested in the health of the coastline and coastal erosion. Streisand's suit complains that the photograph is of extraordinary clarity and violates her right to privacy, as it shows details of the property that one would not ordinarily be able to see from the road or the beach. California has an 'anti-paparazzi' statute on the books."

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  1. Zing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the Streisand article:

    "Besides," Adelman added, "Didn't she say she'd leave the country if Bush got elected? Well, we're waiting."

  2. Neal Stephenson was wrong by aborchers · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are five things we will be good at. He forgot about suing each other...

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  3. Re:Google's Cache to this story .. by Gerad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't post that link here! The next thing we know, Miss Vermont will be suing Google and Slashdot!

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  4. New Slashdot Poll by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny
    My website reveals the sordid details of my passionate affair with:

    1. Natalie Portman
    2. Kristen Dunst
    3. Brittany Spears
    4. Kate Winslet
    5. Carrie-Anne Moss
    6. CowboyNeal never kisses and tells.
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    1. Re:New Slashdot Poll by Phroggy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Much as I might like to think that all the female readers of /. are lesbians, I think you need to include a man in there.

      You know something about CowboyNeal you're not telling us?

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  5. Thank you, Ken Adelman by jjeffries · · Score: 4, Funny

    I will print this picture out and add it to my "places to avoid if you don't want to run into Barbra Streisand" file.

  6. Re:Libel by outsider007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a public figure, she might have a tough time winning a libel suit.
    and this, my firends, is why you must always secretly videotape sexual encounters with hot chicks.

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  7. "Miss Vermont" didn't think this one through... by Robber+Baron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prior to today, I didn't know her name, never mind her reputation, as I had never even heard of her, and had never run across Max's site. Now everyone who reads Slashdot knows that she's a drunken slut! Way to protect that reputation! Perhaps "vapid" doesn't even begin to describe it...

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  8. Re:Google's Cache to this story .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, his reply to her question "How did you learn to f*** like that?" is "Home Schooling". Anyone else find that a little disturbing? (In a duelling banjos kind of way...)

  9. Re:Check out the self-admitted bullshit: by patchmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best part of this whole deal is on Miss Vermont's web page. Once you get past the idiotic animated intro, there's a cartoon US flag with "Free Speech" flashing on and off. Either somebody with a wicked sense of humor hacked the site or Miss Vermont is rather selective in her application of rights.

  10. "King of the Hill" by Hao+Wu · · Score: 5, Funny

    She totally reminds me of the "Luanne" character.... if you know what I mean.

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  11. Re:error in article by HeghmoH · · Score: 4, Funny

    I went to high school with Amy and lived one street over.

    Hello? Have you learned nothing? That kind of information is illegal to give out!

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  12. Re:Libel by Wordsmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    the videotape i understand. how do you arange for the sexual encounters with hot chicks?

  13. Re:Google's Cache to this story .. by buzzcutbuddha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tucker Max is not an overly self-impressed jerkoff! Just because Tucker Max speaks in third person and Tucker Max pretends he's James Bond, doesn't mean you should look down on Tucker Max.

    Tucker Max is not happy with you.