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The Streisand Effect

http://www.thestreisandeffect.com/

When trying to hide information backfires.

• Added on: Aug 31st, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Mickey Mellen
• Listed in: Observational Humor
• Tags: copyright effect streisand

Recent Posts

• The Video Professor wants to make sure you know how scammy he is.

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 14:25 in ebay, companies, techcrunch, michael arrington, powerpoint, consumerist, video professor, john scherer

  You’ve seen his ads on TV — “The Video Professor”.  He’ll teach you eBay or PowerPoint or some such program, with a free trial.  As it turns out the trial is pretty sneaky. When you sign up, you pay about $5 for shippi...

• D. Marvin Jones can’t let it go

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 08:24 in people, copyright, lawsuits, university of miami, d marvin jones, donald marvin jones

  It’s kind of a sad story.  University of Miami law professor Donald Marvin Jones was arrested in 2007 for soliciting a prostitute.  He denied the claims, and the charges were later dropped.  The law blog AboveTheLaw had written a series of p...

• Ralph Lauren doesn’t like that you don’t like their ad

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 12:34 in copyright, ad, dmca, lawsuits, ralph lauren, boingboing, huffington post, techdirt

  Ralph Lauren has a new ad out with an impossibly skinny model in it.  As Boing-Boing put it, “Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis”. The ad was highlighted on PhotoshopDisasters, as an example of (we really hope) bad Photoshoppi...

• Bank screws up; tries to sue Google so word doesn’t get out

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 05:31 in google, lawsuit, gmail, banking, lawsuits, rocky mountain bank

  A small bank in Wyoming made a double-oops last month.  They sent some sensitive information to the wrong Gmail address, but also included a document that shouldn’t have been sent at all.  They didn’t want their customers to learn of th...

• Rick Pitino wants the press to not report on his press conference

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 07:59 in sports, Celebrities, basketball, press conference, louisville, extortion, ted kennedy, rick pitino

  Rick Pitino, head coach of the Louisville basketball team, has sure made a big mess — cheating on his wife, involved in an extortion attempt, and a variety of other strange things.  The problem is that he’s making it worse. The story was...

• How to look bad: File a bad lawsuit, lose, then appeal anyhow

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 21:04 in lawsuit, lawsuits, appeal, sedgwick, lord locke

  Sedgwick Claims Management looked bad, then worse, now awful.  A guy was upset with the company so he took some pictures of Sedgwick and put them on fake “wanted” posters.  Sedgwick responded by hiring a big national law firm (Lord Lock...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

omawarisan

A great idea, well executed. Hiding something by making it part of the public record isn't really smart. The Streisand Effect makes it less smart. Well done!

Posted: October 10th, 2009 | More Reviews From omawarisan | Report This Comment

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