In this day and age of modern technology and the anonymity one can find behind the veil of the internet allows things to be said and pictures to be shared with little accountability.
Times are changing and some are questioning the true motivation and reason behind a recent lawsuit. A Pittsburgh blogger is being sued by North Jersey Media Group, which owns The Herald and The Record News. Their suit claims that Marjorie Adams, owner of StoopidHousewives.com violated copyright laws by publishing pictures of Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 4 premiere parties. The case was moved to Pittsburgh, Adam’s residence, on Thursday. In the motion requesting that the case be moved from New York to Pittsburgh Adams’ attorney states that the blog is run by Adams as a hobby.
At the moment, the suit’s foundation is unclear. One theory is that StoopidHousewives does use watermarked pictures along with giving credit, although she also puts her own tag or watermark on the pictures she publishes on her site. Checking with TVFishbowl’s legal team, we were advised that watermarks or otherwise tagging pictures makes it appear as if you own the pictures, which is a clear violation of Copyright laws. At this point this is all just speculation no one knows what the lawsuit exactly states. It is highly unlikely that the filing of a lawsuit would not have been the first communication, typically a cease and desist letter would have been sent requesting the removal of the offending items.
We do know that Marjorie Adams never wanted her identity revealed on her site or anywhere else. She has always blogged behind the StoopidHousewives name, so in that sense, she has already lost. We are finding out that Adams’ attorney actually asked that her identity be kept anonymous, claiming a rival blog’s fans where making crazy over the top comments online. The judge did not find Adams to be in any real or serious threat of danger and denied the request.
There are rumors that the plaintiffs are seeking a jury trial and this is where questions come into play; Is there be a true concern that the newspaper and photographers lost money due to pictures being published on other sites? Do they desire to send a message out to all websites and bloggers? Or are the motivations more sinister, is this a way to publicly identify this blogger to try to stop what she does? One has to wonder what is the true motivation behind this lawsuit, regardless TVFishBowl will be keeping our eyes on this case.
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I just read on the TamraTattles blog that there are some who think the Manzos are behind this lawsuit…..interesting. Hate the Manzos/Lauritas/Gorgas. Sorry.
I think your sentence, “…a way to identify this blogger and try to stop what she does.” BINGO! I also read what Pinky mentioned about Manzos and; I have a feeling there’s some truth there. You know Marjorie would have gladly removed the photos if that’s all it was about. I really feel for Marjorie, having an anonymous blog myself, I can’t imagine being outed. I hope she keeps blogging – love her blog!
I wonder, Shan, if this is going to be something we see more of. LeAnn Rimes suing a Tweeter, now this? Seems like Goliath going after David just because he can. If I were a betting person, I’d bet we’re gonna be seeing more of this.
I’m so freaking happy someone is finally making Marjorie, Ms SH, be accountable for her actions. She slanders housewives & other reality stars, all the time. She’s very cruel, makes fun of them & we all know she doesn’t have an inside source..she gets her info from other websites. Some of the pictures she posts with her watermark are even from the Bravo website!! She slandered Amy Hanley, Sin City Rules, after Amy started posting on the site. I read it all. She was all nice 2 Amy then a relative of Amy’s started posting lies, calling her names etc& Ms SH didn’t stop her..she let it continue even tho that’s 1 of her rules..NO ATTACKING OTHER PPL WHO POST ON THE SITE. It was RIDICULOUS! She STILL talks about Amy, even though Amy hasn’t posted in quite a while. I know Amy was open & honest with everyone on SH bt as soon as SH could stab her in the back, she did. I hope Amy gets a cease & desist order so SH can’t write anything else about her! I also hope she has to take all the slander about Amy off her site!! Marjorie thinks the Housewives care about her website, too…She always says “All the HW’s read this blog”. I kind of doubt it! She used to bash Teresa Guidice but because alot of her followers like TG, she now is on T’s side…but she bashes the rest of the HW’s in NJ. Take a good look at that site..read her archives. Its total BS. She uses ppl for what she needs. Also, if any1 questions the GREAT MS SH…she goes off on them & “poofs” (as she says) them. I hope whoever these ppl are who are suing her WIN!!! She needs 2 realize she cant continue to lie about ppl in an open forum & not be held accountable. She steals her stuff from others but of course, she says she doesn’t & a lot of her SH followers suck up to her like crazy! It’s sick. I read a couple sites today & they are sick of SH, too. GO PLAINTIFFS!!! MS SH, Marjorie-GET A REAL JOB!
Momma of 3,
What you said. From your mouth to a jury’s ear. Marjorie Adams has got to be one of the most disagreeable individual’s polluting the Internet.
Talk about Karma! I found it interesting that recently she had stopped running ads and exhorting people to click on ad icons that she would feature. Now it makes sense. An interesting legal fact is that if she had not running her blog for-profit she could have been defended in this litigation by an attorney provided for her by her home-owners insurance company. But because she had been receiving established revenue this attorney will most likely not be provided for her and she will have to pay for any defense out of her own pocket.
@Audpaud-I’m not 4 sure what the other blog is..I’ll try 2 find out. @StoopidIndeed-Exactly!! Here’s another thing I picked up on…which is kind of obvious, she has no insiders, we all know that, except maybe Chris Stark (@stark3823). CS posts on SH often…She also steals her stuff & claims others have stolen it from her. CS is as rude & obnoxious as SH is. Ya know, why is she so upset her name’s being posted on blogs?? It’s on news sites, too. If the posts she made were facts & TRUE & the pics she posted WERE HERS, then she shouldn’t worry about it. I know some ppl go overboard when the reality stars they like are put down & degraded but we all like certain ppl for certain reasons-But when a person who runs a blog allows the comments to slander the reality stars & say just flat out mean & nasty, CHILDISH, disgusting things about them, then that blogger doesn’t need to have a blog. State the facts but quit making fun of others with words or pictures at their expense..keep your followers in check & don’t allow their lies & childish name calling&ridicule, obnoxious behavior Of course, she can have her own opinion but she’s so 1 sided, its disgusting. Plus, quit blocking people from commenting just because they don’t agree with the bloggers opinion. SH was NOTHING a yr or so ago so IMO, she figured she needed to get nasty & act like a 12 yr old to get followers. She still doesn’t have that many ppl who follow her or are regulars…and the ones who are regulars, are such suck ups it’s pathetic. They actually thank her for making a comment to them…and if any1 questions her, she gets nasty..She rarely comments unless she wants to be rude or remind someone she’s already posted about what they are commenting about. Plus, she ASSUMES or rather, makes up what she thinks really happened in different scenarios (with the HW’s). I like blogs that report the facts & behind the scene stuff we aren’t privy to & they can also back up the facts. I don’t care 4 assumptions & 1 sided blogs…period!
Momma of 3,
You are right on the money about everything. Especially the way her sycophants actually ask her permission to respond to new posters. It’s as creepy as it is outrageous. As to her addressing the fact that she is being sued for her inexcusably bad behavior, there will be winged pork in the treetops before Marjorie Adams ever invites others to scrutinize her the way she does whomever it is who is unfortunate to fall under her rheumy-eyed gaze. That she makes most of her stuff up is the greater evil.
Helen Wheels, or should I just call you Kathy?
What the hell did M Adams ever do to you? Show one example where she encouraged bashing of the Giudice Kids!
On your no traffic site, you talk a bunch of crap on her but produce no evidence and you brag about being a retire journalist? I am from Jersey and know all too well who you really are!
Keep talking and I just might write the truth about you.
I would think a retired journalist who thinks she is so above everyone else wouldn’t be spending her time proofreading a blogs site then bragging about quitting. You can’t get an interesting conversation on your blog if your life depended on it. Keep talking shit Ms Baratta.
For the record, we do not delete comments unless they are a direct threat against someone’s life or safety. Other than that people are free to express their thoughts and opinions freely.
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Liar
Mommaof3-Marjorie loves to put people down when they make an innocent remark that she had posted months earlier-always saying “already posted you gotta be quick around here”. So degrading I wonder how anyone with half a brain puts up with her. And I am glad she is getting her just desserts!
You just got busted in your lies Amy, that is why they turned on you over at stoopidhousewives .
What is the rival blog mentioned in the article?
Fame Whorgas?
Chris Stark gives her info to the lady that runs the Fame Whorgas blog. Stoopid Housewives doesnt use her info because it’ s not right. I think Chris Stark is more disturbing than Marjorie Adams. These people take these fake reality shows way too serious!
Wonder why Marjorie…oops, sorry, Ms SH, hasn’t made 1 post about what’s going on? All her followers are tweeting & fussing about it…and usually, SH LOVES when she’s supposedly threatened by reality stars or whoever she makes up. She brags about it. Maybe her atty told her not to acknowledge what’s going on…who knows. Hope this teaches her a lesson!
I think it’s ironic that she has yet to mention her legal problems on her very own weblog, which she uses to attack and ridicule others.
She probably has been advised by her attorney not to discuss the pending litigation.
Ed. B-I think that marjorie adams is too embarrassed to admit that what she has been doing is illegal. She deletes any posters that call her out on her improprieties. As a WordPress blogger she knows the IP adddress of all who post on her site. She has bragged many times that all of the housewives love her blog because she can trace them from their IP address. She is a fake and a phony. Her site should be shut down as she writes negatively about so many people with no facts to back up what she says. I don’t believe for a second that any housewife would give such a low brow site an exclusive interview as once they supposedly do she writes very negative stories about them. Case in point was her interview with Aviva Dresher. Marjorie Adams even threatened to have Aviva fired from RHONY as she said she had “close” friends from Bravo who could ruin Aviva’s reputation.
Marjorie Adams is as mean and vicious as you have all said. I have been wondering when she would finally be caught stealing photos -water marking them with the SH logo-and also complaining that stories written by others were stolen from her. She is cruel to any poster who disagrees with her and pounces on them and then has her minions do her dirty work for her as they continue to bash the poster who disagreed with her post. Another blogger by the name of TT devoted an entire day to the case-tried to say it was her exclusive- and related the whole thing to Lynn Hudson-now deceased and unable to stand up for herself. From what I have read Lynn was also very cruel to many posters who happened to take offense at the cruel things she would write about Jill Zarin. Zarin had to contact Word press many times to have horrible stories about herself and her family removed from lynn’s blog. These blog wars are mean girl and very high school.TT also puts down any poster that disagrees with her and states that she has the inside scoop from the Housewives in ATL.She also states she doesn’t allow name calling, etc on her blog but she does it herself. I find it hard to believe that all of these bloggers supposedly have close friendships with these television personalities. [Name Removed] states that she has counseled Sonja Morgan on how to act during the last NY reunion and also that she is friends with Simon Van Kempen. I hope this site remains as professional and truthful as it is today.It would be interesting if you would do an expose on some of these bloggers-they all seem to steal stories from other blogs and news sites and claim them to be their exclusives. I just found you today and I applaud your authentic and articulate journalism. A new fan. Kay
Kay,
Welcome and thanks for your support. We here at TVFishbowl try to remain impartial, do we each have our favorites? Yes, but we’ll cover both the good and bad regardless of who’s involved. Nothing worse than going to a site that focused only on providing the good about their favorite and bad about those they don’t like.
When my 3 business partners and I started the site, we wanted it to be a friendly place that people could visit, read both sides of a situation and feel comfortable knowing that it was reported without bias.
Again thanks for your support and welcome to the TVFishbowl family.
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Ed-I would advise you to take the flu shot as long as it is not a live-virus. Most places are not giving the live-virus but it is always good to ask. I have to have a flu shot every year as I have an auto-immune disease (immune system in overdrive and I have to take Enbrel which lowers the immune system) and if I were to get the flu I would end up in the hospital very sick. Unfortunately the flu shot does not help with all of the flu strains out there but better safe than sorry. Ask your doctor what he/she thinks and take their advise. I have never had an adverse reaction to the flu shot. I did have the flu about 10 years ago when my children were young and it was 2 weeks of hell. The pain is horrible and you feel like death warmed over. Good Luck!
Kay,
Unfortunately I’m one of those who become sick within hours of getting the flu shot. Needless to say, I don’t get them.
Kay,
I appreciate your comments concerning my post. Thank you!!!
I do have opinions but as this was just breaking, I desired to present it in a way, everyone could come to their own conclusions and opinions.
I’m watching this one!
Kay,
You are so right about TT. She is another one. Disagree with her and she becomes like a lunatic who forgot to take their meds.
I think the problem with people like TT, SH and LynnNChicago is they are not professional writers. Their lack of professionalism shows and they become very thin-skinned when this is pointed out to them.
I am a retired journalist who is ashamed to admit that the RH franchises are my guilty pleasure. I find myself in a no man’s land when seeking out websites to have some fun and discuss the shows. That’s why besides coming here I started my own site. It’s not a blog but more a forum where anyone who registers can start a thread about any topic on any show. Lively discourse is welcome. Snark is okay as long as there is as much wit as there is acid. I am loathe to censor adults and encourage people to say what they mean but remind them to mean what they say because they will have to live with the remarks. Now my site does allow an individual to modify or even delete their own work so one is capable of self-censorship if they regret a remark once they have read it and thought it over.
I know how hard it is to find an intelligent place for intelligent people to debate and that is why I am, so far, impressed with Ed B. and the way he runs this site. I am going to go out on a limb here and take a liberty by posting a link to my site. I would be glad to feature a link on my site to here if Ed is of a like-mind. If not, then he can, of course, delete the link. No harm, no foul.
Helen Wheels
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(We are an “org” because frankly, the dot.com wasn’t available. So I tell people to think of it as we are all getting organized to help stop the spread of bullshit).
Helen-I registered for approval to post on your forum. Thank you. I look forward to conversing with you. Kay
Hi Helen,
Welcome to TVFishbowl and thanks for you support. I noticed that you run a forum, if you ever have any interesting topics of conversation going on over there, let me know and we’ll post an article about it. You can always reach me at Ed here on TVFishbowl.com
PS – I made the link in your signature clickable.
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Helen, LynnNChicago passed away.
Please provide examples on your claims where M Adams has encouraged bashing of the Giudice children !
Admin-may I post a link I found about the past blog wars? It is not negative-just explains who the various players in the game are and their relationship to one another. Thank you. Kay
Kay,
You are free to post the links if you think it’s something that will benefit the readers. Just know that if it’s something that takes away from TVFishbowl it may be deleted.
As Helen stated above, we don’t like to censor adults. The only comments that will ever be deleted here are comments that threaten the life or safety of a commenter or contributor, and those that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Recently we had a comment that was racially disparaging on the Aubrey O’Day nightclub shooting in WA, the comment “Typical N****,” provided nothing of substance and was only meant to enrage. The other owners and I thought long and hard about deleting the comment, we don’t want to censor, but think that sometimes a line needs to be drawn.
Everyone is welcome here and everyone is free to express their thoughts freely.
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So sad this happens to people Great blog though GREAT JOB SHANNON
Dear Ed,
Thanks and when my other half gets home, I will feed him and then get him to put the link up. I look forward to trading info and ideas with you and the friends we both make in either place.
Here’s to a mutually satisfying meeting of the minds.
Kay, you will be registered tonight. Thank you for your interest.
Helen
P.S. After reading your flu shot offering I still went today and got my flu shot. You definitely gave me food for thought but I have an underlying and serious health issue that my cardiologist says means I should err on the side of caution and get the shot. However, your article was of course timely and definitely food for thought. I already shared it with others.
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We’re happy to work together Helen, if there’s anything you need from us let us know. Also if you’d like to write about something that you think might interest our readers, we’d be happy to give you a spot if you desire.
Once things settle down here, I’ll run over to join your forum. Are you going to do anything for Big Brother, you know the show has a huge summer following.
Please don’t bring Q into this, she has no dog in this fight. She is not a mean blogger. Please edit out her name.
I like Dr. Mitch and his advise. Has he written any books and does he have a radio or TV show?
At the request of two individuals I have deleted attacking or defaming comments. Rest assured this will NOT happen again!
We’re all adults, if you can’t play nicely with one another than I suggest you find another place to play. If your comments don’t add to the conversation at hand or aren’t relevant to the article, don’t post!
From this point forward think about what you’re saying before you post, once you hit the “Post Comment” button you’re going to have to live with what you say.
I can’t say it any better than Helen on Wheels, so I’ll leave you with this:
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Ed, sorry to have come to your playground and made a mess in your play yard…
I only came and only posted because of the poster who has decided to keep posting another former bloggers real name in public forums… This blogger left a very popular blog because she wanted to maintain some kind of privacy and a little sanity from people with imaginary axes to grind…
As long as this poster quits harassing this former blogger in this way, there is absolutely no reason to come and bother her.. I know I wont… She has the right to find places friendly to post in, I just wish she could understand that hurting others she has parted ways with, isnt necessary…
btw, I read your blog, and still will (I am fascinated by the highup exec at Bravo story debunking the NJ rumors that you have started) but rarely post on blogs anymore… I dont take it as an insult that you removed my posts… and btw, poster, I am not the former blogger, just one of the people who still chat with her on facebook… I would never post your real name on a public board, and I would just hope you would give the former blogger the same courtesy..
Thank you for your understanding. As I said the deleting by request is the first and last time this will happen. I shouldn’t have to monitor what people post.
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So that was the last time? Never again? Why is Quincy Kathy freaking out?
Ed, I left you a comment on the post you did. I’m out, peace.
Shannon great blog and I really like the non biased approach. Lots of people run across Ms. SH and some don’t like the experience and it is their prerogative to be happy for what is happening if that is how they feel.
I for one am sorry that anyone who chooses to interact anonymously is losing that advantage. Seems a bit over the top to spend the money suing a blogger for posting some pictures of people who are only quasi famous. I would not be surprised….warning conspiracy theory about to drop….if someone was behind the suit in an attempt to make a statement to the huge blogging community that there are limits to what will be tolerated. What better way to do that than to select a blog that has been around for a while, has a large following and if not liked by the masses well it keeps that person’s hands even cleaner.
If in fact they want a jury trial, I do not believe it will be for purpose of recovering lost revenues but rather to set an example and send a message that bloggers can not just arbitrarily do whatever they please. Glad you will be following the story and can’t wait to see which direction it will take towards reaching a conclusion.
Shannon and Ed are bias! They didn’t blog about Tamara Kaye Brawner getting charges on her butt.
No need to write about Tamara, every site and their mother posted about it including Tamara herself.
Nice try though, thanks for visiting
Again, I sincerely wish you would read all post before claiming what I have or have not blogged about. You are wrong, once again, Chabalka.
Interesting info-please delte if you don’t want this on your site,http://housewivesmania.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/andycohen-w-me.jpg
Oops-here it is:http://housewivesmania.wordpress.com/
Thanks for sharing that, August. Here are my thoughts. Bloggers become successful when they find and amplify an aspect of their personality, so that they do not come across as humdrum. SH, as one example, is snarky in her wit and has built her blog on being cutting. Just because she comes across as she does on her site does not necessarily mean she is that way “in real life.” SH is her entertainment personality; we do not know her at all.
I think that when you create a blog and it becomes popular, you do become part of public consumption, you do become an entertainment personality.