A few days ago we commented on a story about a former Playboy Playmate, Stephanie Adams, and her lawsuit against the NYPD for excessive force. Stephanie who is a self-proclaimed seer of sorts and claims to have made the "transition from the superficial to the supernatural" has a strange way of handling her new found enlightenment. With so many books and proclamations about being a "Sorceress" and being enlightened one could hardly imagine her going apeshit on a cab driver.
Today we got an e-mail about using images that she claims she owns the copyright to, one of which was taken off of her MySpace page. We immediately took down the pictures, but here's small example of how Ms. Adams deals with her anger. All I can say is that I'm glad I wasn't her cab driver.
This is from her MySpace bulletin board:
If enough of you send comments bashing this amateur writer's article about me, maybe he will get a clue and take it down altogether:http://blognyc.net/news/stephanie-adams/former-playboy-playmate-is-suing-the-nypd-for-use-of-excessive-force.php
Playboy has already been notified about his illegal use of the photos, clearly copyright infringement.
I'm a firm believer that good always defeats evil...so go get him!
Blessings,
~S
She immediately starts out encouraging people to come here and "bash us" and calling us "amateur", but then ends the post with "Blessings". I love how self-righteous people can justify retaliation and anger and encourage others to "bash" people and sum it all up with blessings.
There's also a nice little e-mail exchange between me, and someone who claims not to be Stephanie Adams, because Stephanie Adams personal PR people do that (on Saturdays) even though Stephanie is writing about it on her MySpace site. What is most bothersome is that if all this was strictly about the pictures I would completely understand, but it's clearly about someone who has an impossible time taking any sort of criticism about any aspect of her life, especially if it's saying her MySpace site looks like shit and is hard to read.
Check out the e-mails below.
From Stephanie Adams:
BESIDES THE FACT THAT YOUR ARTICLE IS CRASS AND IGNORANT, THE PHOTOS
YOU HAVE STOLEN AND ADDED ON YOUR WEB SITE
(http://blognyc.net/news/stephanie-adams/former-playboy-playmate-is-suing-the-nypd-for-use-of-excessive-force.php) ARE COPYRIGHT MATERIAL FROM PLAYBOY AS WELL AS GODDESSY AND MUST BE REMOVED
IMMEDIATELY.
YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO REMOVE THESE PHOTOS OR WE WILL TAKE THE
APPROPRIATE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOU.
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
From BlogNYC:
Dear Public Relations person (or Stephanie if this is you...hi Stephanie!),
While we appreciate your extremely non-emotional review of our article we are unsure of exactly which photos you would like to have removed. We can of course tell that you are very serious because of the fact that you used all capital letters in your correspondence. We could definitely tell that you were talking very e-sternly.
There is however the issue of the article being a parody/commentary on a current event issue, and the one image used from your personal and public MySpace page is credited and linked.
While we are unsure of many things in this crazy, mixed up world of ours, like why some people are lactose intolerant (I mean come on, they'll never get to drink chocolate milk! Personally I'm allergic to chocolate so while I can't drink chocolate milk it's for very different reasons) we are sure of one thing and that is that Playboy can easily handle their own infringement cases.
While we appreciate the fact that you have written 16 books, some of which are 63 pages long! We also truly admire the fact that you are an outspoken advocate for the LGBT community. We have absolutely zero tolerance for bigotry and hatred, and believe that it's absurd that in 2006 in the United States an adult cannot choose who they want to marry. As with racism, ignorance and fear predicate people's opinions on the LGBT community. We're sure you're a very positive member and spokesperson for the LGBT community, and that can't be an easy thing, especially with people like Ryan Seacrest not pulling their weight at all in that area.
Sorry, we got a little sidetracked there. As for the images, could you be more specific as to which images are copyright material from Goddessy?
Sincerely,
Public Relations Guy (Just kidding it's me James!)
From Stephanie Adams:
WHILE 16 BOOKS RANGING FROM UNDER 100 PAGES (ONE BOOK) TO OVER 300
PAGES IS A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SOME UNKNOWN WRITING ABOUT NOTEWORTHY
CELEBRITIES ON AN AMATEUR WEB SITE, THAT IS BESIDE THE CASE.
YOU DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHTS TO ANY OF THE PHOTOS AND THEY ALL HAVE
TO BE TAKEN DOWN.
THE PREVIOUS E-MAIL WAS COPIED TO PLAYBOY'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN
CHICAGO AND PLAYMATE PROMOTIONS IN CALIFORNIA REGARDING THE FOLLOWING:
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_04.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_05.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_13.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_14.php
AND GODDESSY OWNS THE COPYRIGHT TO THE FOLLOWING:
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie-handcuffs.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_08.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_11.php
IF THE PHOTOS FROM GODDESSY ARE NOT TAKEN DOWN TODAY, WE WILL BE
CONTACTING OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT TOMORROW.
IF THE PHOTOS FROM PLAYBOY ARE NOT TAKEN DOWN BY MONDAY, WE WILL SPEAK
WITH PLAYBOY'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN CHICAGO AND THEY WILL CONTACT YOU
DIRECTLY.
From BlogNYC:
Dear Stephanie,
I really thought we were making progress, but again with the all capitals. I get it, you're very e-stern about this matter and you don't like having someone say that your MySpace site is crappy looking.
I will take down the pictures at some point today when I get around to it. I have nothing to gain or lose by doing either and I'm afraid that my fragile ego cannot take any more all e-yelling. Actually, I should be more specific, I will take down the pictures you claim to have copyrighted, I think I'll wait for a note from Playboy to take down the rest.
Good luck with your "supernatural" life. Maybe that's the next step to enlightenment that I'm missing, writing in all capital letters.
Sincerely,
From Stephanie Adams:
LEGAL NOTICE:
THIS IS THE GODDESSY PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT. MISS ADAMS DOES NOT
CORRESPOND WITH PEOPLE PERSONALLY UNLESS THEY KNOW HER PERSONALLY AND
SEND E-MAIL TO HER PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS. ALL CORRESPONDENCE SENT
REGARDING STEPHANIE ADAMS IS AND WILL BE DONE SO VIA THE PUBLIC
RELATIONS DEPARTMENT FOR GODDESSY AS WELL AS THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT FOR
PLAYBOY.
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