QC’s Weekly BitchFest 2006!

Welcome to QueerClick’s WEEKLY edition called BitchFest 2006!! It appears so many of you have so much stuff you need to get off your chest with a sounding board. So here is your chance. Each week QC will give you a topic or theme and you can sound off about it all you want. We want to hear your gripes, complaints and sounding off about your life, but we do ask you follow these simple guidelines:
I. Stick to the Theme/Topic
II. DO NOT bash others for their sounding off.
III. Leave comments and bitches in the COMMENT SECTION.
Here is this week’s topic: Perez Hilton (the infamous blogger) is he just a guy doing what he loves or a true scumbag who delights in making fun of celebrities and outing celebrities? If you don’t know what it is about read below.

To Robin Abcarian of the LA Times in response to her article that was published today:
Robin –
Regarding your article about X17 suing Perez, you asked me why I’m suing Perez and not another blogger and that’s when I gave the answer that it’s because he’s the most blatant infringer and the most arrogant (I never said pigheaded, by the way). That was not my answer as to why I’m suing him. To give that quotation to Perez as the reason for our lawsuit against him is bad journalism in my opinion. And pitching the story in the second paragraph, as somehow less serious or valid because we take paparazzi images and not ‘news’ images, is confusing the issue. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement no matter what you, personally, see as the value of the material.
You also say we have “agreements” with many blogs, allowing them to post images with proper credit and a link back to our site. What we have in place is purely an agency-client relationship with PinkIsTheNewBog, PopSugar, and SocialiteLife to pay to license our images. It is no different than our agreement with UsMagazine.com or People.com other than that these blogs pay a reduced licensing fee in exchange for publishing our images with a link back to our site. There are no other sites currently participating in this deal other than the aforementioned three.
And why give the URL of Pere’z blog and not of ours and why link to Perez’s blog (in the online version of the article) and not to ours? Seems to be more proof of your one-sidedness in this story. Why not also point out that the “fair use” defense would mean that anyone anywhere in any medium could publish our images without licensing them? That would mean that X17 would become a public service, and not-for-profit company? People, Us, In Touch, and ET, Access Hollywood and all our other clients wouldn’t need to pay for our images any more? Perez can’t claim newsworthiness when an image has never been published anywhere other than his own blog — when it hadn’t even made the news until he infringed it!
– Brandy Navarre
And this is just my personal note to all the Perez fans out there — I’m not jealous of Perez. I wish he had been able to do what he does legally because I quite enjoy his site. The battle we’re fighting is not a grade-school argument, it is a legal issue and our aim is to protect the images we work so hard at getting. Perez just had to pay for the images like everyone else and he chose not to do so, which has landed him where he is, squarely at the center of this lawsuit.

Written By Reichen
Mario Lavendeira (PerezHilton.com) is a Big (blank) Ugly Liar, an Accused Thief and Criminal
All, From the Horse’s Mouth: Just a friendly reminder that when you read websites like PerezHilton.com, you are reading lies and are being taken advantage of as you make more money for a person who does nothing but fabricate stories to make his site look interesting. That anyone would trust someone like Mario Lavendeira (PerezHilton.com) who STEALS from photographers, bloggers, and the general population, is beyond me, really. This person is a common criminal.
Contrary to what this ugly wind-bag has reported, I have not broken up with my boyfriend. I did not go home with anyone from “Survivor” from any party. I have not “made out with” anyone at a party while I have been with my boyfriend. The opposite has been written on his site. It is all a complete and blatant lie. This person is a liar. Period.
My book was done before I ever met Lance. I do not date people so that I can “use” them. I’m self-sufficient and happy to be that way. I have served my country, I have made my own money, my own career, written my own books, bought my own homes and other possessions, and I’m proud to be this way, on my own. I am not broke. I am individually financially sound. I date people because I happen to love them. Period.
I will only post this once. This disgusting person and his site makes up blatant lies to create interesting stories. I am one of this criminal’s targets. Understand that. So know, from here on out, that if you read anything about ME on PerezHilton.com, you are 99.9% sure to be reading a lie or an exaggerated, incorrect version of something that is 0.01% true.
Merry Christmas Everybody!!
Love, Reichen
P.S. Here is some information on “Perez” and how he stole a check from a friend and deposited into his account while he was using CRYSTAL METH. This guy is a drug addict, criminal, and thief.
“Perez Hilton, of PageSixSixSix fame–but whose real name shall remain verboten because, unlike him, I have some tact–is a total thief. He got run out of L.A. because he is a meth addict and a thief. The boy had the gumption to steal a check from a friend’s apartment and then deposit it into his own account as a third-party check. Like his ass wouldn’t get caught.
But tina makes you do stupid things. He did get caught, though I’m not sure what happened with his court case. This happened like eight months ago. Check fraud, forgery, theft. Then his blog takes off and people in L.A. started posting comments to it about the theft. He deletes them all. So you heard it here first. If he gets any more famous, tell people not to let Perez get too close to your dresser drawers, because if he is cracked he will steal from you regardless of the consequences.”

We’re very interested in your thoughts. As of this story, I have still not decided what I think of Queen Hilton’s run of fame. Finally, this exchange may interest you.



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