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2003·Early web, before YouTube

The Streisand effect

You might remember it as Barbra Streisand Malibu photograph

This one never had a single recording. What is known is below.

This Moment happened away from the internet before anybody put it online.

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  • MediaNot held by ViralWorld

The law the internet discovered about trying to take something off the internet.

The story

What this was

In 2003 Barbra Streisand sued a photographer for fifty million dollars over an aerial shot of her Malibu house, one of twelve thousand images in a coastal erosion survey. The photograph had been downloaded six times, twice by her own lawyers. In the month after the suit, 420,000 people went and looked. The case was dismissed and she paid $177,000 in costs. Mike Masnick of Techdirt named the pattern on 5 January 2005.

It first appeared in 2003, during early web, before YouTube.

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Early web, before YouTube

What we know

Where it came from

There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment happened away from the internet before anybody put it online.

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In 2003 Barbra Streisand sued a photographer for fifty million dollars over an aerial shot of her Malibu house, one of twelve thousand images in a coastal erosion survey. The photograph had been downloaded six times, twice by her own lawyers. In the month after the suit, 420,000 people went and looked. The case was dismissed and she paid $177,000 in costs. Mike Masnick of Techdirt named the pattern on 5 January 2005.
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