Erin Andrews - Awarded $55M

[BabyPeterzz]

If my wife got millions and millions of dollars for the ****ty video I saw that is neither embarrassing or sexy or worthy of a second watch and my wife's career got a nice boost at the same time then I would be ecstatic.

Some people have all the luck.

You are lucky, what if it was your daughter? I don't know if you have one, and if not, what if you did? Would your nude daughter on the internet be worth $55M? Would you feel lucky to have her naked body on display for the word, including all the pedo's out there, to see? Erin Andrews is someone's daughter.

 

[Gameface]

If she was offered 55mil for some nudes and went for it that would be one thing. She may have gotten some attention from the photos, but she didn't ask for that kind of attention. People do have the right to make these decisions for themselves.

 

[fishonjazz]

You are lucky, what if it was your daughter? I don't know if you have one, and if not, what if you did? Would your nude daughter on the internet be worth $55M? Would you feel lucky to have her naked body on display for the word, including all the pedo's out there, to see? Erin Andrews is someone's daughter.

When I saw the video I didn't really think her naked body was on full display.
I couldn't really see anything.

I would definitely rather have my daughter with a very short, blurry, poorly filmed couple of seconds of nudity in the internet for millions and millions than have her be a broke stripper or pornstar though.

And ya it would suck but then I would know that she never has to worry about money again and she would be so happy and healthy going forward for the rest of her life.

No one will remember this about andrews in 2 years. She still be rich doe

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

You are lucky, what if it was your daughter? I don't know if you have one, and if not, what if you did? Would your nude daughter on the internet be worth $55M? Would you feel lucky to have her naked body on display for the word, including all the pedo's out there, to see? Erin Andrews is someone's daughter.

I would hope my daughter would be smart enough to take the offer of a blurry nude 10 second video where you don't see anything for 55 million dollars.

I'll ****ing swing my dick around like a helicopter on video for 55 million.

 

[fishonjazz]

Plus, I mean bad things are going to happen to my daughter. That's a fact of life.
She might get her heart broke. She might need stitches at some point, break bones, get addicted to some substance, be molested, raped, beaten by a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, struggle to make ends meet, miscarriage, get an abortion, carwreck, cancer, the list goes on and on.

As far as bad things in life go im not sure where a short video of blurry nudity ranks.

I do know that those other bad things that might happen in life won't come with a reward like 27 million dollars however

 

[b_line]

I would hope my daughter would be smart enough to take the offer of a blurry nude 10 second video where you don't see anything for 55 million dollars.

I'll ****ing swing my dick around like a helicopter on video for 55 million.

Plus, I mean bad things are going to happen to my daughter. That's a fact of life.
She might get her heart broke. She might need stitches at some point, break bones, get addicted to some substance, be molested, raped, beaten by a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, struggle to make ends meet, miscarriage, get an abortion, carwreck, cancer, the list goes on and on.

As far as bad things in life go im not sure where a short video of blurry nudity ranks.

I do know that those other bad things that might happen in life won't come with a reward like 27 million dollars however

She is famous so it's a lot different. Add to that she works on a completely sexist industry.


But the main point here has absolutely nothing to do with the money. The dude and the hotel violated her personal privacy, in a country that values our freedoms above most other things. She didn't choose to make a blurry nude video. It was against her will. Whether or not she would have taken the money is not in question, and the "reward" has more to do with the hotel industry not letting **** like this happen than it does with providing a "fair compensation"

 

[fishonjazz]

She is famous so it's a lot different. Add to that she works on a completely sexist industry.


But the main point here has absolutely nothing to do with the money. The dude and the hotel violated her personal privacy, in a country that values our freedoms above most other things. She didn't choose to make a blurry nude video. It was against her will. Whether or not she would have taken the money is not in question, and the "reward" has more to do with the hotel industry not letting **** like this happen than it does with providing a "fair compensation"

I don't disagree with any of this. Good post.

My point was more that I don't think this is some tragedy for andrews and if this exact scenario happened to my daughter it definitely wouldn't be the end of the world and likely wouldn't even be near the top of the list of bad things that happened in her life

 

[b_line]

I don't disagree with any of this. Good post.

My point was more that I don't think this is some tragedy for andrews and if this exact scenario happened to my daughter it definitely wouldn't be the end of the world and likely wouldn't even be near the top of the list of bad things that happened in her life

But it would be awesome to get tens of millions of dollars for it though. Haha.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

You are lucky, what if it was your daughter? I don't know if you have one, and if not, what if you did? Would your nude daughter on the internet be worth $55M? Would you feel lucky to have her naked body on display for the word, including all the pedo's out there, to see? Erin Andrews is someone's daughter.

I've never seen the video and I'm not going to look it up. No, I would not be happy if someone did this to my daughter. That doesn't mean that I believe that a party who made some mistakes but did not commit the crime should be obligated to pay a huge fine. How would you feel if this case was awarded against your business?

 

[b_line]

I've never seen the video and I'm not going to look it up. No, I would not be happy if someone did this to my daughter. That doesn't mean that I believe that a party who made some mistakes but did not commit the crime should be obligated to pay a huge fine. How would you feel if this case was awarded against your business?

I would hope I had insurance good enough to cover it.

 

[Miggs]

She's not getting 55M. Or 27M. Prob more like 6-10M.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

I would hope I had insurance good enough to cover it.

This is just incredible to me. How can it be that so few people recognize where this money ultimately comes from? Do you think that insurance companies are just sitting around waiting to take it in the shorts and that a huge award like this has no repercussions? Doesn't anyone recognize that the costs of giving Andrews all this money goes right into society and are spread among all of us. Do any of you really believe that her particular "hurt" is so special that it should be worth millions upon millions?

But it's not just this case. A legal precedent gets set and this will happen again and again. Each time the lawyers rake in their fat fees they will try to convince us that they have again cured a societal ill and made sure that someone has been taught a lesson (not necessarily the actual perpetrator, but some entity with deep pockets who can somehow be tied to negligence that allowed the crime to be committed). And as a consequence our costs will go up, and up, and up.

This whole scenario played out (and continues to play out) in the medical industry and look where it's left us. But now we're going to sit by like a bunch of idiots and applaud as our other industries are destroyed. And some of us are even going to claim that these costs are passed along to the insurance companies so it really doesn't matter.

(BTW, lol at the logic of saying that the purpose of the fine being to teach the company a lesson, and that it gets paid by the insurance company anyway. Are we actually trying to teach the insurance companies lessons rather than the perpetrators of the crime, or the companies who can be somehow linked to it, or anyone else? The insurance companies are learning because they simply raise their rates and pass the costs right on to us. What a ridiculous treadmill we have put ourselves on.)