? War against the Martians | Main | Mordor ?
February 25, 2005
Fred Durst video
Looking for the Fred Durst video? Read on...
Warning: adult content. Not work safe anywhere.
Seriously. This is in the "too much information" category.
Here is the "Fred Durst videophone" performance that Drudge Report has in its current newsflash regarding the same "T-Mobile Terrorist" responsible for those Paris Hilton phone numbers. This is graphic stuff and presented for news value only.
A site hosting the hack reads: 'I'M SORRY, U SELLOUT :)' "The previous information was obtained using social engineering tactics." Law enforcement officials believe the video comes from the same source who presented Paris's Sidekick diary.
Obviously, there are people who would rather not know about this sort of thing but I believe incidents like this or the comparable situations presented by the Paris Hilton video or those videos of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee represent more than "amateur pornography". I believe new portable communication technologies and the networks they connect to represent the thin edge of the wedge of a wide-ranging social change. We are going to be exposed to much, much more of this sort of material in future.
Yes, it is Fred Durst and an unidentified (for the moment) woman in the video and yes, they are having sex. But for all that one of the people involved is a celebrity this is prosaic, human stuff. It is not entirely clear to me why Fred Durst would choose to record these moments in the first place but it is clear he is not alone in doing so. It is also clear that people are prepared to record just about anything they get up to in one medium or another. We are going to have to radically reconsider our ideas about privacy, be much more forgiving of the bad judgments some people make in their youth and - at least in my case - be grateful these technologies were not around when we were younger to leave some embarrassing evidence for all to see on "the internet".
You have been warned! The Fred Durst video can be found here.
Update: The first comments to this post provide a link to the original website cited in the Drudge Report news flash. Mirrors are currently down at that site but as I write this the file is still available through the above link.
Update: Here are two more Fred Durst mirror sites.
Update: And here is the link to the file at Gawker.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 25, 2005 06:07 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.ghostofaflea.com/cgi-bin/mt/trackback-engine.cgi/3026
Comments
This is only the tiny downloadable version - get the full version including some additional pics and infos at http://hacking.to/freddurst/
Posted by: apb ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 25, 2005 06:53 PM
This is only the tiny downloadable version - get the full version including some additional pics and infos at http://hacking.to/freddurst/
Posted by: apb at February 25, 2005 06:55 PM
"Fred Durst naked sex privacy issues sweeping social change end of the world as we RUTZAHGOIWaoivnvo8
Oops, sorry, I fell asleep on the keyboard there for a moment. I guess I am old. I haven't the slightest interest in "moblogging" my most intimate moments, which these days consist of filing my toenails and talking to my cat while I sit on the toilet. Hey, I may be old, but I can still multitask.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at February 25, 2005 08:28 PM
Hey, I managed to * bore * Andrea Harris... I have arrived! :)
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at February 26, 2005 01:59 AM
Oh, you aren't boring...
Posted by: Andrea Harris at February 26, 2005 11:48 AM