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hq of the event above and 32 more inside...

i finally made it to 100. hooray for me.

http://xero.org.au/~slea/images/adriana_lima/all.rar <- link only for bellazon it's a ~700mb rar archive of the images in the xero adriana lima gallery - about 4200 images in total. there's definitely duplicates in there but i've done my best to weed them all out. uhm, thank practically everyone here for contributing to it, but especially dwd and lullaby. and of course the resident scanners. (nothing really new in there, just trying to pip my way to 100 before i go)

er, and some more photos from the event a few posts up (premiere in la, i think)

from the dukes of hazzard pre-screening a couple of days ago

26 july 2005 - ms. knightley at a special performance of pride and prejudice at the tuschinski theatre in amsterdam, holland. 33 more inside

and there's nothing wrong with that. "pseudo-ownership" is the closest the scanner or capper will ever get to owning the content, and in my opinion they deserve that level of recognition (low though it may be) for the work they've done. i'm not a lawyer and as such my legal advice isn't to be trusted. further, i'm not an american so take the following with a grain of salt - but i was under the impression that the point of the DMCA was preventing copyright protection method circumvention (outlawing processes like DeCSS). sites like lime-light.org and i'm willing to bet thebabeindex are / were at much higher risk than bellazon purely because they have advertising on their site, which means they generate revenue. they wouldn't even be able to argue fair use under non-profit. at the end of the day anyone can tag anything on to a photo though, i could sign your name onto every photograph i import. it certainly wouldn't be grounds to get you into any trouble, so i think the legal argument is a moot point.

regarding point 1, i don't think that's really fair. a 'tag' doesn't imply ownership under any law i'm aware of. hell, even if you paid gettyimages the mere $9000 per image for advertising use and plaster it with your brand's logo it still doesn't imply "ownership" of the original photo (with the possible exception of purchasing exclusive rights). point 2, i'm sure site advertisement is the purpose of the tags. as for legal trouble, well, of that i'm not so certain. in australia and probably the united states there is a doctrine in copyright law called "fair abridgement" or "fair use". fair use applies to strictly non-commercial reproductions of copyrighted work for certain purposes (from memory i think research, reporting, education, and criticism), and is dependent on the effect that the use in question has upon the market. fair use is the reason people can cite copyrighted material in reports and so forth. bellazon (and about a bazillion other sites) probably walk a fine line. but it's non-commercial and doesn't impact the market in the slightest (insofar as i am aware). however i'm not a lawyer, so i can't say this with certainty. the fact people do still tag is probably evidence of the fact that the Big Companies don't really care. i don't think you could be more wrong about point 3. if a scan is tagged well (like, say, nine's scans) it's not in the least distracting, and it's almost like an assurance of quality. however, some tags can be terribly annoying. but the bellazon tag is not an example of one. all that said, at the moment i don't tag anything i scan or purchase or import. i "sign" everything i scan though, so i know that it's mine when it has completed its circle of the internet and has come back to me. and so i can prove to people that it was my scan when they try to credit it to themselves. really bad example - one of my first (bottom of adriana's left leg). i think it nicely solves the problem of people stripping the tags off images. some people work hard to obtain images (regardless of the legal fine line) while others remove tags then post those images without attributing source, or even worse, attributing themselves. i'm arguing for the sake of arguing, though (you wouldn't believe how boring my day was). because i really don't care whether people tag or not. i don't, i probably never will.

(slea posting from paris) darren keith's new site was just launched, it's here: http://www.darrenkeith.com. it has naked adrianas. i had the longest most boring meeting in the world today. i swear to god it lasted 4 hours, and we discussed literally nothing. for 4 hours. and i have to go back tomorrow and sunday. i hate my job. *sigh*

a few old favourites before i go... see you next month.

i can't tell you *all* the magazine covers she's been on, but i have a few here.

18th July 2005 - Jessica Alba attends the Fantastic Four UK Premiere. 5 more inside

17 July 2005 - Jessica Biel at the Stealth premiere at the naval air station on North Island, California. 5 more inside.

thanks to downwithdisease!

16 July 2005 - Kate Beckinsale at the 36th Annual Comic Con International in San Diego, California 4 more inside

16 July 2005 - Eva Mendes at the 36th Annual Comic Con International in San Diego, California 2 more inside

16 July 2005 - Michelle Rodriguez at the 36th Annual Comic Con International in San Diego, California

13 July 2005 - Eva Mendes in the press room of the 13th annual ESPY awards held at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood. 10 more inside

14 July 2005 - Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, and Chris Evens in Madrid to present their latest film, Fantastic Four more inside.

13 July 2005 - Michelle Rodriguez goes shopping on Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles

kubrick, burton, spielberg, for most of their movies. tim burton especially. gaspar no

i agree - ie6sp2 has some similar features to firefox (such as popup blocking), but you can't beat tabbed browsing. and some of the extensions in firefox make life so easy. mouse gestures, site-customised css, javascript modification via greasemonkey. i guess those are targeted more at developers than general web users, though. yeah! where abouts in sydney do you live? i went to university at UNSW in kensington, and lived in bondi. i really miss it.

can't wait! i doubt it, not even close - i don't have that much. carsten from wft has a movie gallery with plenty of clips i don't carry. it's here: http://in-my-opinion.org/adriana%20lima-movie-gallery.html(what was the site with the 2002 backstage stuff?)

salas, hille, & etgen - calculus one and several variables, ninth edition. susanna s. epp - discete mathematics with application, second edition. with a combined total of just over 1900 pages, how lucky am i? as for fiction, i just finished dan brown's angels and demons as well as digital fortress (which i thought was the best of the three, the other being the da vinci code), and terry pratchet's "going postal".

Is nobody ever going to connect these two properly? I really love that pic of her on the vespa (or whatever). I hope I didnt miss it or something. . . . <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (from sexy vol3)