Alcon said:
Sevrin said:
Alcon said:
Obviously, the best solution is for people to be adults and realize that where no wrong is committed, a person doesn't just become a bad person by being involved in a situation they had no control over to no fault of their own. Then this entire matter would settle itself. It's only because of this weird guilt by association people have, which is creating even more guilt, and so on...
In the real world, people don't always behave like adults, though. Do they? No one has the right to put others, especially children, in a potentially embarrassing situation simply for their own monetary gain. To do so is not what I'd call "behaving like an adult".
So if a person goes out on the street and shoots a video for her YouTube channel with bystanders passing by, and makes money off her YouTube hits, she's violating the bystanders' rights? Because there's literally millions of YouTube videos shot in public places and it's almost certain not everyone making those videos obtained the consent of every single person appearing in them.
Is she violating their rights? Yes. They did not consent to be placed on the web for all to see. And I do believe that is something we should have to consent to. Whether it be youtube, or a porn site like MFC. Our image is important and can effect us greatly in our future and that should be taken into account when people shoot bystanders. It not only effects us but our families and partners as well. (Depending on your job yes your family members lives are up for deciding the jobs you can have.)
A good example of this and what you said about a popular video would be Pharrells Happy on Youtube. Theres a 24 hour version even so literally hundreds of people on the street caught on film whether they want to be or not I would presume. I dont see any signs on the street stating that there will be filming and to stay off the Blvd if they dont wanna be on film. And i highly doubt they got consent from them all. (I dont know for sure but let's presume they didnt for the sake of an example here.)
All of these people in this video with over 39 million views will someday be ran through a face recognition program and be tagged and forever tied to it whether they like it or not. And thus their lives may change in irrevocable unforeseen ways. Maybe good ones, maybe bad ones, but both without true consent. While being in a music video is not looked upon in society as badly as porn all it takes is one person judging someone for this to change their life forever. An admissions officer denying an application, a hiring manager denying a job, a potential date googling and passing them up, etc.
While it would be great to live in a world where people would be adults and overlook things the simple fact is we do not live in that society here in America. It shouldnt be shameful to be in the background of a porn, or embarrassing, or harmful to futures but it is. Not only for the rando in the frame but for the people doing the porn too. So while in an ideal world you can blow off taping a bystander in a porn background and nothing would come of it, we don't live there. And realistically we never will. So you have to look at the reality and culture we live in now which is full of judgement and stigma and acting accordingly to such. Be an adult to start with and dont tape people without consent to begin with and it won't even be an issue then. Now, in the future, for you, and for anyone else. It would be great to fight such thoughts and disrespect to anyone associated with the sex industry in any way, sadly a lot of people feel the exact opposite and are fighting just as hard for their cause. Who will win only history will tell. Im hoping as we (America) evolve we go the way of most of Europe where it's not as big of a deal.
I know that as a law right now you can record people in public without issue as outside there is no right to privacy. However I do believe one day this will change as this software becomes available and laws catch up. Its a non issue right now as it's not prevalent to any Tom and Dick. But once you start getting people with hits on whatever cool search engine at the time that they do not agree with and it effects their life in any way you will see them fighting back against it and probably some lawsuits too boot. Sad but true and it will come to that. Granted we may be 10+ years at least away from that but we all know it is coming.
As a camgirl I protect my privacy as much as I can. 99% of us do. To not extend that privacy to other people who may be on film does not logically make sense to me. It's irresponsible to say the least. No matter if they are a child, adult, or elderly we should be smart and protect others privacy as much as we do our own every day. Going in to public and filming we are not doing that as we should be. It's unfair to be willy nilly with other peoples lives while we protect our own.
Azhrarn said:
At the risk of introducing common sense into a thread where posting smileys seems to be considered a noteworthy contribution,
Dude my post to you was very relevant to what you were saying. You may not like it but that's the case. Doing it in smilies or pics was just a nice cute way of doing it. I also saw no point in arguing with you as if you had read this thread and still felt the way you did (believing a crazy persons website alone) then there was no point in trying to "set you straight" with facts and a whole story. I know when my time is probably better spent elsewhere. I was nice and polite but please dont respond to it passive aggressively acting as if we have no common sense here and you're the voice of reason on this matter. Someone ill informed on a subject isn't exactly gonna be relevant to the topic and to me at least didnt deserve a point on point argument on it.
Anyway if it wasnt clear enough to you Pumpkin Spice is a drink. A delicious drink sent from the heavens that is only bestowed upon us in the fall. Only a certain amount is made and distributed and it is a highly desirable coveted cup of euphoria. Im pretty sure it's what Sally was having in that diner.