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Guess which Jokers of Journalism think they and their not-so-Good partner site are Justified in stealing our images for their Joke of a website? Criticizing the media and then Jerking around with images that aren't yours Just ain't cool. Guess we'll Just see them in court!

P.S. - First, it's not Just Jared or Perez. Second, we got the following comment -
December 15, 2006 10:21 AM
Posted by: Anonymous
Might I make a suggestion?
If you'd offer a larger variety of licenses so bloggers could use your photos legally, you'd not have to worry so much.
While I certainly understand being upset about theft of one's intellectual property, you're only hurting yourselves by being litigious.

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At least their Celebrity, Media, and Manhattan blog will have a front row seat in court!

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Posted by: kathleen

hhmmm let me guess is it perez?!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

Dumb ass perez



Posted by: Anonymous

does perez have J's in it? you morons.


Just Jared.



Posted by: MIA MIA MIA

ahahahaha...perez hangs out all day scanning all the gossip sites for pictures he doesn't have yet so he can steal them..



Posted by: MIA MIA MIA

p.s. this is very nicole richie.



Posted by: Jules

JustJared



Posted by: Anonymous

uh just jared...



Posted by: ldytrojan

The J is for Jossip, whose partner site is MollyGood. Read the signs folks!



Posted by: Anonymous

Might I make a suggestion?

If you'd offer a larger variety of licenses so bloggers could use your photos legally, you'd not have to worry so much.

While I certainly understand being upset about theft of one's intellectual property, you're only hurting yourselves by being litigious.



Posted by: Anonymous

Might I make a suggestion?

If you'd offer a larger variety of licenses so bloggers could use your photos legally, you'd not have to worry so much.

While I certainly understand being upset about theft of one's intellectual property, you're only hurting yourselves by being litigious.



Posted by: Tommy

Dumb,dumb, dumb, dumb...

Have you ever heard of "Gawker"?

AS IN..

Gawker Media
their Gawker blog.

THE gossip site which inspired them all??

The FIRST blog to make fun of celebrities, esp. now with GAWKER STALKER.

Gesh!! You guys aren't the brighest bunch, are you...



Posted by: ldytrojan

umm . . .i posted this earlier, but people still seem to believe this to be about Just Jared or Perez when it clearly IS NOT

J = JOSSIP

their tag line is "CELBRITY + MEDIA + MANHATTAN"

their partner site is MollyGood (as in not-so-Good partner)



Posted by: Anonymous

half the stuff you report is crap anyway...maybe if you guys employed a fact checker you might get abit more respect from the READERS.

I know its gossip but half the time you post anything,go look at the comments becasue we are constantly correcting you guys.



Posted by: Anonymous

are you poeple dumb? they straight told you its NOT Perez for fucks sake.

its Jossip and mollygood.

jeesus.



Posted by: Anonymous

Intellectual property? Please don't offend real intellectual property by claiming pictures of a Brit's snatch is anything but intellectual.



Posted by: Anonymous

we hate perez!!!



Posted by: kathleen

hhmmm let me guess is it perez?!!!



Posted by: missparis

I know this is not about perez or JJ but if you look at perez this morning he has a blog with a similiar reference to x17. Check it out, looks like a full out medie war.



Posted by: Mel T

Please. i would not even know about you if it wasn't for perez. don't be jealous!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

OMFG These blog wars are more entertaining then the celeb gossip. Seriously, I am loving this! What the hell is wrong with me?



Posted by: Blu

Its probably that loser Jordan Johnson.
Jordan is your homeboy or whatever lame crap he calls himself these days.



Posted by: Anonymous

perez,perez,perez!!!!!!!!!!!



Posted by: ?

why not go after everyone than? & not just perez! your pics are everywhere!!!!



Posted by: ?

why not go after everyone than? & not just perez! your pics are everywhere!!!!



Posted by: anon

I seems, from all these "clues" in the BI, that this is pointing to Just Jared, but first of all, I didn't know there was a "partner" and second, I read JJ pretty regularly and hadn't seen evidence of them "criticizing the media" and third, I just don't see them "stealing." The JJ blog is one of the most informative and least snarky sites. They are never cruel and mean-spirited. If you were referring to PerezHilton, that would be another matter. He has a well established reputation for stealing pictures and anything else he can grab for his shamelessly self-promoting site. And yes. I dislike him. Bcz I am sick to death of Paris Hilton and they are BFF and he never covers her shortcomings...and there are many.



Posted by: Anonymous

Get over it, if it werent for Perez I wouldnt even know about this site, So you must give him some credit. His site is way better, I always check his first



Posted by: me!

X17, you emphasize business morals.

I don't want to be fooled by the media. I would like to know if Spears gives you a phone call where she's goes partying? Are these paparazzi crowds arranged?

If you deny it please let us know from where you know in advance where she goes to. There are around 30 paparazzi waiting in front of a club where she can't be expected. They are all there BEFORE she arrives (didn't follow her by car, for example). Is it team work with her? Are her shady publicity stunts orchestrated with your cooperation?

Why did you change your opinion on her so quickly? Is this a marketing strategy to fulfill the needs of the lovers and haters?



Posted by: Ashley

X17-

Perez is your best advertisement...If it weren't for him, you'd be nothing...



Posted by: Anonymous

check out perez's blind vice - sex offender??? alcoholic boss or wife or something? why would he lash out if it weren't about him? i thought it was obviously jossip???



Posted by: Anonymous

Haha, has to be JOSSIP and MOLLY GOOD. Poor X17. All lawsuits and no time to post.



Posted by: Anonymous

I look at most the gossip sites - for all your complaining Perez's site is much better then this one regardless of who took the pictures or not. For once quit your crying! Maybe that's the only way you get recognition?



Posted by: Anonymous

You all should browse on over to Salon's article about Perez's theft of copyrighted photos - X17 is asking for 7.5mil, but it looks like they aren't the only ones pissed off. All 57 photogs covering VH1's Big in 06 refused to take his picture on the red carpet. As a photographer I sympathize - don't let anyone infringe on your copyrights - they are your livelihood!



Posted by: c. spears

Honestly, I feel bad for the celebs that are constantly hounded by the unwanted press but I do know that this is your guys job so I think its great you're suing perez ... he makes money off of your guys hard work and time, he's such a fraud. Good job, x17!!

Ps. Jossip & mollygood, sup? What's up with perez's retarded blind item?



Posted by: Anonymous

thats why pinkisthenewblog.com is so cool... he sights everything and every sight so people wont think hes stealing... giving credit where credit is do. thats the place to go!!



Posted by: anon

Whoever it is, the "Manhattan" reference is a BIG CLUE. Glad x17 posted clarification that it is NOT Just Jared. I like Just Jared.
As for Perez, he thinks he's a Big Celebrity himself. He doesn't only cover them, he IS one. Plz spare me the raves about how great his site is. All he ever covers is Lindsay, Britney and Paris and Nicole. (Just like x17!) And he NEVER criticizes Paris. They are BFF. If you're over 16, you will outgrow Perez very fast. And x17 needs to quit covering those skanks, too.



Posted by: Anonymous

did you read what he is saying about you in his site!



Posted by: Anonymous

He doesn't call it "Hollywood's Most Hated Website" for nothing. As celebrity blogger Perez Hilton -- real name: Mario Lavandeira -- walked down the red carpet of VH1's Big in '06 Awards earlier this month, the paparazzi pointed their lenses to the ground, refusing to shoot his photo. In Hollywoodland, where looks might kill but not being seen is fatal, it was as if the eye of God had turned from Perez. After two years of Hilton appropriating -- OK, stealing -- online paparazzi photos, scrawling words like "whoreanus" (a, um, "pun" on the word heinous) across them using Microsoft Paint and posting them on his site, the photographers and their agencies have finally turned on the world's most popular gossip blogger, who they claim is cutting into their bottom line.

Last month at an Xbox 360 launch event in Los Angeles, Perez got into an argument with a photographer on the red carpet over stealing photos, and when X17, Hollywood's largest celebrity photography agency, told him that he could no longer use its images without a license, he fired back: "Instead of wanting to have me as a friend or an ally you choose to be a cunt! CUNT! And I don't wanna work with cunts. And liars. And unethical people. And that's what you are!" Now, X17 is suing him for copyright infringement, and asking for $7.5 million.

The lawsuit is only the blogger's most recent brush with controversy. A few weeks back, the latest chapter in the is-he-or-isn't-he debate over "American Idol's" Clay Aiken sexual orientation unfolded on network TV after Kelly Ripa took Aiken to task for putting his hand over her mouth, saying, "I don't know where that's been." Rosie O'Donnell thought the remark was homophobic, commenting on "The View" the next day, "If that was a straight man, if that was a cute man, if that was a guy she didn't question his sexuality, she would have said a different thing." "Good Morning America" picked up on the story and brought in Perez to comment. It was the crowning moment for the self-proclaimed "Queen of Media." Since he launched his first blog two years ago, Hilton has been vocal in trying to out gays in popular culture. Aiken has been one of his biggest targets: A year ago, he questioned Aiken's sexuality on his site, writing, "Clay may be a bottom and only 26, but he's one helluva sugar daddy." Now, with a "GMA" turn, his crusade had made it to network television.



Posted by: me!!

Perez calls it "most hated website" for a different reason. The same concept you find here:

In my opinion the bloggers have to switch between love and hate messages because otherwise they would lose the haters to visit their website and the lovers. As the strategy behind the celebs blogs is not a stable opinion but how to get most of the hits the numbers of haters grows. Perez knows it, stands behind it but most of the readers don't realise it.



Posted by: Anonymous

I found your site through Perez....
Now I check your website several times a day. I would have never done that before.
I LOVE both sites.




Posted by: OBVIOUS

MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T TRY TO OFFER YOUR PICTURES TO BLOGGERS FOR $2500 A MONTH THERE WOULD BE MORE PEOPLE WILLING TO PAY FOR YOUR PICTURES!!!

THINK ABOUT IT!

HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU THINK US BLOGGERS MAKE???????

NOT EVERYONE HAS THE TRAFFIC OR THE BANK ACCOUNT THAT PEREZ HAS....BE RESENABLE AND YOU'LL GET MORE CLIENTS...ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

thats why pinkisthenewblog.com is so cool... he sights everything and every sight so people wont think hes stealing... giving credit where credit is do. thats the place to go!!



Posted by: Anonymous

did you read what he is saying about you in his site!



Posted by: Anonymous

actually - none of the pictures you sell belong to you to begin with - you don't own the copyright to any of them! your photogs are all freelancers and none have signed a contract giving you rights to their pix - so actually your own photogs should be suing YOU for the rights to and $$$$$ to their own pix.



Posted by: Anonymous

perez is fucking annoying...his little girl writing bugs the crap out of me....



Posted by: Shaun

I have to agree with the other commenters - you're basically running a scam on illegals here. In and of itself, that might not be so bad - you do get the pictures after all.

BUT YOUR COMMENTARY IS F*CKING LAME! SPICE IT UP, TAKE A POSITION. THAT IS THE ATTRACTION TO PEREZ. HE HAS BALLS.



Posted by: Anonymous

perez is fucking annoying...his little girl writing bugs the crap out of me....



Posted by: Anonymous

Perez removed his post...he realized a little too late that he wasn't the target of this Blind Item! He's still getting his ass sued off, but it sounds like a bunch more people will be too!



Posted by: Anonymous

perez had his blind item up first and its still posted up..trash talking about x17's child molestor on staff and gang members as photographers to bully other photogs and celebs around..and the main boss of x 17 has an annoying alcoholic wife that noone can stand



Posted by: Anonymous

Could you reply to the following questions?

Who is the "little girl" you're talking about?

What do you mean by "child molestor on staff"?



Posted by: Cruz

Who the fuck cares?!



Posted by: Anonymous

x17 has some ok photos, but to think you have any kind of intelectual property - all X17 does is take fucking photos of "celebs" and their pussys / ass / tits (insert body part) - which is cool - I like check out the T & A - but seriously, you guys are a bunch of shitheads. fuck you guys. I'll stick with www.wwtdd.com - he's one funny mother fucker.



Posted by: Anonymous

x17 - we dont give a fuck - we just want to see cunts. and tits. and maybe some ass.

we really dont care if it's your site or some others - stop thinking the visitors to your site are here for you - they are here to check out the sex - you bunch of fucking self righteous pricks.



Posted by: Anonymous

The writer of wwtdd.com is just as self righteous as Perez. He's the hetero version of Perez who's trying to use that blog to make himself famous. The guy who owns wwtdd.com also owns gorillamask.net and a lot of other sites. I heard wwtdd.com is earning over $200,000 a year doing the same thing Perez does.



Posted by: Go ahead and track down my ip address.

X17 is fighting an uphill battle. As long as they keep posting pictures, people will keep taking them and posting them. Not even disabling righ-clicking help, it can be overcome in FireFox.

Maybe x17 needs to quite whining and just stick to posting videos [which can be ripped anyway].



Posted by: anon

Dear X17-
Don't all your photos have watermarks? I don't see any watermarked photos on Mollygood. Are you suggesting that they have time to photoshop out your watermark?



Posted by: Anonymous

Jossip & Mollygood?

The partner thing gave it away. I hate it when you go to x17 and then you go to other sites and see the exact same things that've already been posted. It's not new news/gossip if it's already been posted here first. It's just stolen news/gossip. And the anon comment posted at 10:38am? SocialitesLife photos don't have watermarks on them, either. And they're a client of x17.



Posted by: Anonymous

WOW! SOME OF YOU GUY'S REALLY NEED TO CALM DOWN AND MELLOW OUT, I CANT BELIVE THE PICTURES AND VIDEO I PROVIDE OF CELEBS HAS ALL THIS DRAMA TIED TO IT. AS FAR AS SOMEONES PAST LEAVE IT BE MOVE ON AND DO SOMTHING WITH YOUR TIME OTHER THAN FUSS AND HAVE CAFFINE FIXES IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTERS, LIFE HAS MORE TO IT THAN ALL THIS BLOG DRAMA PEOPLE, TAKE A DEEP BREATHE AND LOOK HOW MUCH TIME YOU ARE WASTING,

NEW KING OF PAPS!!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

so mollygood and jossip
s been using ur photos! i thought that if u linked the source thats not wrong?



Posted by: laurie

could it be katieholmes.com? they've been asked several times by you to remove photos..



Posted by: Anonymous

You are blowing your case with this childish crap. As much as I cant stand Perez, you copied his site so much that, if he figures it out, he will have an equal case against you in court. "After the jump?"...could you not think of any other tag line for a link? That was pretty obvious. Plus, your silly javascript app to disable right-clicks is easily defeated in FireFox. You need to hire a decent computer consultant.



Posted by: Anonymous

I just checked out your site because I read the LA Times article and you are just trying to be perez hilton. Your site looks like his but it sucks. Won't be here again.
I love PEREZ!!!!!!!!!!!!
The LA Times article made the wife seem ignorant--lol



Posted by: chico

Ist time at this site and its pretty freaking LAME! Sorry, you may the goods with the pictures, but there is no personlity, its not funny or interesting.

As a blogger (of an totally unrelated subject) I understand giving credit to images and the sites that they originate from.

But if you want compensation for your images, then the celebrities should get part compensation because you are making a butt load out of their name and likeness.



Posted by: Anonymous

Perz Hilton is the SHIT. Werk missthing. I'm going to his site right now. It's OVAH for him.. Werk Bitch !!!!!

PerezHilton # 1 site.



Posted by: Anonymous

Perez for Prez! You're just pissed because his gay insight is better than yours......he's a better writer....much funnier.....why not team up with him and rule the world!!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

I hope you win your case!!!It sucks when someone rips you off but Perez will find out karmas a real bitch!!



Posted by: Anonymous

I hope you win your case!!!It sucks when someone rips you off but Perez will find out karmas a real bitch!!



Posted by: Anonymous

I hope you win your case!!!It sucks when someone rips you off but Perez will find out karmas a real bitch!!



Posted by: Anonymous

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No, Really!



Posted by: Anonymous

Your site lacks personality. Perez is much better. Even though I already saw a pic on another blog, I would still go to Perez's site to see what he has to say about it. You lack that. You probably don't want to give any opinions about celebrities on this site because of "legal issues" which is probably understandable. You shouldn't have a blog then. I also only found out about this site through perezhilton.com. You should pay him for free advertising. So maybe you could call it even on the $7mil now;)



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