Slashdot Mirror
Oregon Woman Sues Yahoo for $3 Million
bigtallmofo writes "After notifying Yahoo that two member profiles about her were not authorized, Cecilia Barnes of Oregon is suing Yahoo for $3 million for failing to take down the profiles in a timely manner. The profiles allegedly set up by her ex-boyfriend contained nude photos of her along with her email address and work phone number. (Note: The member profiles have since been taken down by Yahoo)."
I think that portal-based adult groups will probably go "bye-bye" if they are viewed as a financial risk to the hosting site. Yahoo puts all of this webspace up without asking questions about the veracity of the information and then doesn't have the resources to properly police it. I'm sure MSN will drop theirs as well if this case goes against Yahoo.
I'm sure that this woman is not the first person who has had an ex-boyfriend/husband/lover post nude pictures of them on the net.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I can understand she is upset and wants some compensation for the "emotional stress" such an incident might have caused, but... $3 million...are you serious?
hmmm, interesting idea.
But of the tons of people on the internet, how many would you REALLY want to see naked?
Pretty Pictures!
That's something I'll never understand. If her ex-boyfriend is responsible for that, then he's the one who should be sued.
Only in really extreme cases it's justified to sue a service provider instead (i.e. if they didn't react for months I could see the point).
This might become the newest husband-wife scam to extort money out of large companies.
Big fucking deal. You don't need to be of high moral virtue (whatever that might mean) to deserve sufficient privacy to keep private information off the net.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
What's wrong with a couple taking nude pictures of each other, or themselves, for their mutual enjoyment? I fail to see the immorality.
It's not her fault her ex took the low road out, is it?
... is she hot?
The fact that someone allows their partner in a committed relationship to take nude pictures of them and trusts said partner not to share them is not evidence of low moral standing. It's evidence of kindness - he wanted pictures of her because they gave him pleasure, and she agreed to let him have said pictures. And, at least according to her story, he repaid her kindness by publicly humiliating her.
It's sad that she trusted someone who was not trustworthy, but this is evidence of his lack of ethical standards, not her lack of morals.
Of course, all we have here is her story - it could be that this whole thing is a setup to get some money out of Yahoo - but there's no reason to assume this based on what we know. If it did happen as described, I think she has a legitimate complaint both against Yahoo and against her boyfriend.
I think she will have a hard time with this case, proving that she didn't do exactly that.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Everyone suggesting that anyone who got to these pictures share them is getting modded "Troll" but seriously now, how many people in here went straight for those pages and wanted to see them? People are (generally) hypocritical about things like this. They wouldn't want it to happen to them but they want to see it when it's someone else.
Asking for the pictures isn't being a Troll. It's being pretty much human. We're a species of voyuers for the most part.
And yes, I replied to this particular article just to make sure I could find the URL that the AC responding to it posted when I get home.
But at least I'm honest about it.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
That is the most self-serving bunch of tripe I've read this year.
McFact: 185 degrees is the proper temperature for coffee, not a problem to be solved.
McFact: Some other restaraunts had it 20 degrees lower out of fear of lawsuits and at the expense of the coffee's taste.
McFact: McDonalds refused her original claim not because they were being jerks but because if they admitted fault, they would be open for even more lawsuits.
McFact: Lack of personal resposibility is ruining many of life's experiences for everyone.
-Ryan C.
People are (generally) hypocritical about things like this. They wouldn't want it to happen to them but they want to see it when it's someone else.
Yeah, the Germans have a word for it, too: schadenfreude.
Literal translation: Damage joy.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
I hate people like grandparent who try to justify the lawsuit, its makes me sick. Recently i stayed at a hotel, the shower hot water was luke warm at best,when i asked management about it and they said it was due to insurance reasons(scalding) the water had to be set at that temperature. People need to start taking responsiblity for their own actions. Putting a hot cup of coffee isn't the most intelligent thing to do. Having 800 got injured which may seem like a large number, but consider they sell millions a day.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
If the photos don't exist in the first place, then they cannot be put on the internet.
This is common sense and worked well into the middle 1990s.
Would anyone be surprised if the images appear on T-Shirts (ala Zero Wing)? Flash animations?
It's okay to take that picture down now (NSFW).
The ideal temperature for brewing coffee is just under the boiling point, you want it as hot as possible without "burning" it, something unfortunately not possible at home given the low power of most of our coffee makers, unless you buy a pretty exotic one. It shouldn't be left sitting around long before serving, either.
I realize that it's a false dichotomy since we're talking about McDonald's coffee, but still, there is a tension between having good, fresh coffee on the one hand, and accomodating the amazingly stupid people who can't be expected to hold a cup properly on the other. Most places accomodate the stupid people, since they're obviously a pretty big chunk of the population. But still, it's a shame.
The fallacy here is that you're going to transfer the heat to flesh at all efficiently by splashing the liquid over it, such that the flesh will reach the same temperature as the fluid. Hopefully the average Slashdot reader sees the BS here.
It is really just a shame that our society is being shaped to accomodate the stupid, boring people in so many areas and so many ways. They ought to stay at home where they won't get hurt, eat their TV dinners and avoid sharp objects and dangerous ideas.
We've really dumbed down the definition of "hazardous", haven't we? Stay off those stairs! They are hazardous!
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
I'm quite sure that these fine upstanding "Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, medical malpractice, wrongful death, auto accident and personal injury attorneys and lawyers dedicated to vigorously representing the injured" don't have an axe to grind.