I recieved a fax from a lawyer regarding Paris Hilton video
 

I just recieved a fax from the law firm of Lavely & Singer regarding the Paris Hilton video. They claim to represent "Rick Salomon and his website, www.trustfundgirls.com."

In a very generic letter, they claim I am "involved in the unlawful copying, distribution and commercial exploitation of the video in a malicious attempt to market and exploit video software which is not related in any way to the video or the rights therein."

WTF are they talking about? Has anyone else received a letter like this? I have NO idea how they even found me, let alone my fax number.

Ok, did you share the video?

defend yourself, get a good lawyer.

Were you sharing the files or just promoting a sponsor?

does he even have the right to it to begin with? I thought Paris Hilton was already suing.

hmm, smells like bullshit to me. Does Salomon even own trustfundgirls.com?

smells fiishy but get a lawyer anyhow

So Salomon is associated with trustfundgirls? Interesting if true.

trustfundgirls says they own the rights of the complete video - if true, they can and will sue you (if you used the vid on your site ofcourse or maybe if you told you have the full video).

scan what you got and post it here

Rarely is something what it appears to be on GFY.

Yes ... post the proof...

every dumbass blogger with enough bandwith is posting that fucking video, those lawyers are going to be busy

didnt pam and tommy thing get ruled that since it was already so mass distributed that the rights were irrelevant or something?

good thing i dont have a fax here at my office:winkwink:

Wooba.com Uncovers Owner of TrustFundGirls.com, Sellers of the Paris Hilton Video

Found by Craig and Dan, there is a server name that is attached to trustfundgirls.com that is named: tfg1.jimsalomon.cz. This server is reached when you try to telnet to www.trustfundgirls.com port 25. We did not attempt to hack the site or gain entry to the server. We believe that the owner of this site is James or Jim Salomon, who is a relative of Rick Salomon.

We have contacted Lavely & Singer Professional Corp. located at 2049 Century Park E, Ste 2400, Los Angeles, CA 90067. The phone number for them is 310-556-3501. This morning, they have confirmed that they represent James Salomon, who is the brother of Richard Salomon. CASE SOLVED! :)

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/2/prweb104920.htm

the lawyers for the parties involved will most likely go after the major income websites for now, they more than likely send cease and desist emails/papers unless serious money has been made.

small time bloggers dont have shit to worry about.

i got a cease and desist email from michael douglas/catherine zeta jones lawyers regarding the topless pics of her smoking on my site.

Court TV wanted an interview me about my thoughts about douglas/zeta-jones suing websites ect

i never replied back to either and never took the pics down.

Here ya go. I erased my name and fax number. I've never posted the video anywhere. Sure, I might have seen it, but that's it.
I suppose a phone call to them from my lawyer to ask what they claim my involvement is would be the next step. I checked my bandwidth usage and nothing appears out of the ordinary, so I don't think anyone hacked me as a download site. Oh well, fun shit.

http://64.186.135.202/img/paris/p1.jpg

http://64.186.135.202/img/paris/p2.jpg

http://64.186.135.202/img/paris/p3.jpg

http://64.186.135.202/img/paris/p4.jpg

http://64.186.135.202/img/paris/p5.jpg

I didnt bother reading the whole thing.. but check out that last paragraph!!!

:1orglaugh

TrustFundGirls.com absolutely 100% OWNS the Video. IF you have it on your site or stole it from someone who did, it's got a half-life so get rid of it now.

Alll that for 40 minutes of a rich girl giving a guy a blowjob.

Amazing what America has come to.

funny shit :1orglaugh

I think your buddies are setting you up for an upcoming April fools gag on ya!

:2 cents:

Ruff...

Once someone sends your a letter, they can't stop you from sharing it.

The WMV file is designed to be shared which in turn creates an upsell to the new end-user with no cost to the seller.

Have a nice time in jail bro...:1orglaugh
Just joking...hopefull everything will have a happy end for u:thumbsup

fuck rick solomon, he hasn't got a license himself ... muachahahaha !!

Supposedly this is an interview with the "owner" of trustfundgirls.com:
http://www.rogreviews.com/news/read_article.asp?sku=948

The "owner" claims he is NOT Rick Salomon. Yet it seems clear in the letter I received that it is Rick's site. It all sounds like BS to me.

Oh well, I've fought legal battles with bigger fish than this. Time to roll up the sleeves and have a little fun. heh.

Now if that isnt funny...

Anybody interested in giving him some heat on the domain?

How about bogus WHOIS info? :1orglaugh


I can't believe one starts such a setup and can fail at such little shit...

What a dumbass. He wants to fuck with adult webmasters and sue them?

Well,give him some heat then too :Graucho


Have fun...

JOKER

"our expert opinion is that trustfundgirls.com is run by someone related to Rick Salomon, perhaps a brother or uncle or another relative."

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/2/prweb104920.htm

you got balls.

nothing to do with balls...

The owner of that site has balls to put up such a project with bogus whois PLUS 3 round-robbined servers that are open like cheddar-cheese... same goes for the nameservers.

I really dont get shit like this...

It's beyond me how you can set up a multimillion dollar project such half-assed.

Anybody feels what I mean :(


Take care,
JOKER

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who else wants to complain about his whois info... he will HAVE to put legal info on there... then, everyone will see the whole story... :)

Fax him a big GO FUCK YOURSELF! :thumbsup

I'm game :Graucho


GFY.... do we want to play again? :1orglaugh


Do I hear a YES please? :thumbsup


JOKER

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that makes 2... any more with 'balls' that dont like getting fucked over by some smartass?

btw. I kindly asked them to disconnect the domain for bogus whois info.

Take care,

JOKER

i haven't seen it yet.. could you post a link here?

:)

looks like you'll have to hand over all money you made during the period you promoted it to them, not just the paris hilton money, but all money you made during that period from your websites cause they'll argue the other revenue was a result of the increased traffic you got due to the paris hilton video.

hope it was worth it to loose 4 months revenue!

Good point,sad thing is he won't be the last one ending up like this...

This looks all way off to me... someone getting into the old suing business model again.

I'm curious how this all ends. :winkwink:


Take care,
JOKER

What if the money made aside from the Paris Hilton cash was from different domains, different servers, and totally unassociated with Paris Hilton traffic? How could that possibly hold up?

This is the official form for WHOIS problems:

http://reports.internic.net/cgi/rpt_whois/rpt.cgi