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Originally posted by DeltAlum
"Jane Doe One, the lawsuit said, stored the photos on Smugmug.com, among a collection of personal photographs."
Whether the suit is valid or not, how dumb is it to put something like this on the internet?
This is a public medium.
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Technically, it's not really certain what parts of the internet are actually (legally) public, at least as far as judicial review that I can find - for instance, can a site truly be 'personal'? Is it more like posting on your wall, or is it like posting on a billboard? This is 100% a gray-area case, as far as I can tell. The photos weren't obtained through any truly illegal manner, and even if they were, generally the courts have upheld the right to publish this sort of thing.
Now, the special-forces wrinkle is interesting, and certainly germane, but for an entirely different reason. I'm pretty sure this will be quite an interesting case to follow.