Tammy & Takbir!

Skimming the cream of the Blogosphere crop this morning, "Tammy Nyp" remains the "talk of the town," and that little town has grown from the island nation of Singapore to include interested websurfers in North America, Europe and the Middle East! The driving force drawing people to their computers: a modern-day digital peep show... wouldn't it be a hoot if there was a mysterious VIRUS lurking within that infamous "NypClip?" I've received email from some people who said their PC's have been "acting strangely" since downloading the Tammy clip. Others insist the entire "Tammy Nyp Scenario" has been staged by people anxious to make money. While that hasn't been proven, there ARE some trying to make a buck off the Tamster!

TODAYonline.com posted "Living in Glass Houses" (H/T to Mr. Miyagi for the link!) Mr. Miyagi has LIVE links to the TODAYonline article as well as links to both text and PDF versions, so click over if you're more than passively interested: otherwise, read on!
"...forums and blogs have pounced on the discovery of the video file, links to which have since been taken off some websites, but not before the clip had presumably been downloaded, seen by thousands, and re-distributed on personal websites and through email attachments.
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As late as Sunday night, a link to a copy of the video could still be seen on forums such as sammyboy (http://forums.delphiforums.com/sammyboymod/), where readers took turns dissecting and analysing the clip, while some others posted links to fake files, just to irk curious browsers wanting a peek at the video."

NOTE: Brrreeeport blog has a link to the actual video

Bloggers had a field day discussing the matter too, with some saying something like this was bound to happen.
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"From the moment 3G phones went into development, and with the increase in popularity and widespread ownership of such phones, I have foreseen such an incident happening," said blogger Jasper Chen (jasperthedummy.blogspot.com), who also added that he had once recorded himself in a similar setting, only to delete the clip after considering the fallout should the video end up in the wrong hands.
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He's also scornful of the chances the NYP video fading into obscurity in the near future. Says Jasper: "The Internet just works this way: Unstoppable."
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Unstoppable because readers' curiosities will be piqued, especially by "reviews" of the video such as Ghost's: "Frankly, it's very stimulating and I got a little aroused too."
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For those of you who have had your curiosity (ahem) piqued by that quote, Ghost also writes that the clip has been deleted from his computer, so please do not email him for it — and you, gentle readers, are reminded that the distribution of pornographic material is illegal in Singapore.
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Blog aggregator Tomorrow.sg published a link to a blog post that discussed the matter as well, attracting over 2,000 readers and 75 comments, with reactions ranging from disgust to sympathy for the couple starring in the clip.
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"I think the victim is very 'poor thing'", said blogger Cobalt Paladin (cobaltpaladin.blogspot.com) in response to the article posted on Tomorrow.sg.
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"Poor thing" probably for not realising, to paraphrase blogger and activist Alex Au (yawningbread.org), that with the advent of such high-propagation technology, we increasingly live in a society of glass houses, where it is increasingly difficult to safeguard one's privacy - whether or not we have a right to that privacy.
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I think there will be a whole slew of such incidents as people slowly adjust themselves to the fact that data-carrying infrastructures are getting faster and easier to use, and with that, the speed and ease with which information can be spread.
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It doesn't matter if there's still the Undesirable Publications Act (last updated in 2003 to include "electronic transmission" apart from broadcasting). You could still, for instance, accidentally send a picture of yourself in a compromising situation to the wrong person and end up having a much broader audience than you intended, in addition to technically having committed a crime.
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"I think she is a victim in having her phone stolen and her video published ... but which self-respecting female would carry her own sex film around in a mobile phone?!" asked "sir lus" on Tomorrow.sg.
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The other big "T" in blogdom today is TAKBIR...
Michelle Malkin posts another MOVIE, this time from her buddy Bryan "Junkyard Blog" Preston... pop over to Michelle's Blog and have a look! Don't worry about any "hidden virus" in this clip!

A FORUM has been opened up so everyone can comment and share their Tammy NYP stories, along with those special links to photos and video clips:



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