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State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes
(www.nytimes.com)
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Please explain the difference between dissemination of information and "tipping off" someone about that information
The same difference as telling someone in which alley they can buy weed and selling the weed yourself
Information isn't a tangible thing, though. The act of "tipping off" is conveying the information. In your example, it's like taking a thing of value and telling someone where they can pick up a bag of weed that happens to be for the price they paid.
"I find it highly unlikely" should have been the operative phrase that gave away the fact that I'm not a judge or prosecutor, so my definition doesn't really hold water in a court of law. Morehead v. Commonwealth of Virginia gives more information on what qualifies as "dissemination", if you're curious. The long and the short of it is that the offending husband actually uploaded images to a website, which completes the "widespread communication" process. Furthermore, chaturbate's own privacy policy says, "all information and content you determine to share or stream through the Platform, including in 'private' and/or password protected situations, is considered public information".
The sex was consensual, their faces were clearly visible, and the videos were uploaded willingly to a publicly accessible site by Ms. Gibson where she agreed that said content would be deemed public information. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
That is not what the Chaturbate TOS says. She did not agree that the content would be public. Users are not allowed to download material off the site.
In this case dissemination would be a third party posting the video without her consent. "Tipping off" someone about that information is equivalent to sharing a video found online.
"such and such purposefully uploaded this content to this site using their known profile" is not dissemination.