Norm Zada, the founder of Perfect 10, a Web site that specializes in "tasteful" nude imagery, has a problem. (Whatever your taste, that link is NSFW.)
Zada publishes a lot of pictures of pretty naked ladies -- but technology seems to have disrupted the torrent of cash you'd imagine would ordinarily flood toward such a venture. Unscrupulous Web operators too cheap to find and tastefully photograph clothes-free women of their own have, it seems, taken to stealing Perfect 10's images -- and not only that, but Google, Amazon and Microsoft are displaying these illegally copied images in their search engines. Norm Zada, then, has no choice -- with his nudes roaming free across the Web, he's got to call his lawyers.
So today Zada announced he's suing Microsoft. The cause: In its search engine, the company indexes and displays thumbnail images of copyright-infringing versions of Zada's tasteful shots. "Microsoft is showing tens of thousands of extremely valuable celebrity images, along with Perfect 10 images, without authorization, which it obtains from hundreds if not thousands of pirate websites," Zada says in a press release.
Source: machinist.salon.com
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