Tuesday 26 January 2010

Question for Jan 27 - PS

The term "X effect" originated when X unsuccessfully sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$50 million.
What followed after X lost the case is what is now popularly known as "X effect".

Some other examples:

- September 2006 - Brazilian television personality Daniela Cicarelli.
- April 2007 - MPAA AACS key - Digg.
- April 2007 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand.
- January 2008 - The Church of Scientology - Tom Cruise's speech.
- 5 December 2008 - Scorpions album Virgin Killer
- May 2009 - Amanda Bonnen vs. Chicago's Horizon Group Management LLC.
- September 2009 - Polo Ralph Lauren vs. BoingBoing.
- December 2009 - Ted Alvin Klaudt, former South Dakota state legislator.

Name and explain the effect. Be as specific as possible.

6 comments:

Nikhil said...

Streisand effect. Named after Barbara Streisand. It's when the celebrity etc. tries to censor something and it actually becomes more popular because of the media/internet publicity around the act of censoring.

Ankur said...

Streisand effect

Ankur said...

Forgot the explanation..

Its to do with an attempt to censorship, resulting in more publicity..

Gaurav Kane said...

The Streisand effect... getting more publicity when the opposite was desired

Sailesh Ganesh said...

No idea what X is, but the term is used when an entity tries to suppress the display of something it thinks is harmful to its interests, but the very act of trying to suppress it gives it greater publicity and leads to more people seeing it than if no attempt to suppress it were made.

The Answer said...

Streisand Effect it is, named after Barbara Streisand, when she tried to sue a photographer for putting up aerial photos of her house as part of a public database, and the photograph got even more popular on the Internet as a result.

The other examples of Streisand effect are described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect#Examples

Congrats Nikhil, Ankur, Gaurav, Sailesh.