Edison Chen sex scandal

Subject: Edison Chen sex scandal 13/2/2008, 2:18 am

An unlikely coalition of pop idols, communist censors, Hong Kong
police and a Catholic bishop are fighting to stifle the biggest
celebrity sex scandal in the history of the Chinese internet.They
are struggling to halt the spread of thousands of lurid digital
photographs apparently showing one of Hong Kong's most famous actors,
Edison Chen, in bed with eight of the territory's top actresses,
singers and businesswomen.The images were illegally copied from
a customised pink Macbook belonging to the star, best known for the
Infernal Affairs police films. They have prompted a media frenzy here
that has, in terms of scale and interest, utterly eclipsed the fixation
about Britney Spears on the English-language web.As well as
crashing internet servers in celebrity-obsessed Hong Kong, the gossip
has spread to the mainland, where one online discussion about the
subject generated more than 25m page views and 140,000 comments.Police
investigating the cause of the scandal have focused on Chen's pink
laptop, which he nicknamed Cotton Candy Mac. According to local
newspapers, the photographs were illegally copied from the computer
while it was being serviced by technicians.Since the first
images appeared more than two weeks ago, an unknown culprit has
uploaded dozens of fresh pictures every day, each time putting more
celebrities into more compromising positions.Emperor
Entertainment Group - the management company for Chen and at least one
other of the stars pictured in the videos - iinitially claimed the
pictures were fabricated. But Chen has since made an apology."The
lives of many innocent people have been affected by this malicious and
criminal conduct. And in this regard, I'm filled with pain, hurt and
frustration. I hereby use this opportunity to apologise to anyone who
has been affected by this strange, strange ordeal," he said in a short
video statement.The Vancouver-born actor and rap singer called upon anyone in possession of the images not to pass them on."I
urge you to please destroy them immediately. Let's help the wounded
heal their wounds. I urge you to help the victims and not make it any
worse."As the pictures spread like wildfire, a similar appeal was made by the John Tong, the Catholic bishop of Hong Kong."It
is also biblical teaching that we should speak no evil, see no evil and
hear no evil. It is important that we should keep our mind decent and
perhaps needless to say, we should not post or circulate pictures," he
told the South China Morning Post.Criticism has been mixed with
sympathy for the victims. Bloggers accused pop singer Gillian Chung of
hypocrisy because she was making speeches against pre-marital sex at
about the same as she was photographed apparently doing the opposite
with Chen."I admit that I was naive and very silly, but I've grown up now," Chung told a packed press conference yesterday.Hong
Kong police have arrested eight suspects and warned that people may be
prosecuted for sharing the images. This has prompted a march by several
hundred free speech activists, who believe the crackdown has gone too
far.But the daily leak of new images has continued on servers in
the US and Australia, circulated through photo sharing website Flickr,
by email and passed on by hand in the form of shared memory devices.The
gossip has spread rapidly to the mainland, where internet sources say
it is dominating celebrity news forums even though censors remove the
images almost as soon as they are put up.On the popular Tianya
bulletin board, a single discussion string about the veracity of the
pictures has attracted 25.8 million page views and 140,000 comments.Visitors
to the Tianya site also share tips on where to download the latest
images, criticism about the behaviour of the stars and - in one or two
extreme cases - speculation about when the victims might commit suicide.The condemnatory tone of many postings has prompted some commentators to turn on the gossipers."You
people are very hypocritical, scolding the female stars at the same
time waiting for new photos and links," wrote one poster.Mindful
that similar discussion groups have been closed down, along with links
to the forbidden images, Tianya switched its tone today.A new discussion thread highlights the need for morality and links the "mass voyeurism" of the scandal with democracy.One commentator said it proved mainland-style politics are better than the intrusive democracy of the Hong Kong and the UK."Britain
has democracy but the biggest selling newspapers there are tabloids,
which report all the private matters of the royal family. The US has
democracy, but its internet is filled with the Paris Hilton sex video.
We have more democracy than Hong Kong."Others, however, were dismissive about the significance of the story.
"This
is a very big celebrity story, but I don't see any deep meaning except
that one should beware of geeks," said another mainland media source,
referring to the technicians suspected of taking the images.

Msg from me, Nieto: Sebagai pengajaran, kalau mahu buat video ehem ehem sama teman kamu, lebih baik berhati-hati, delete saja untuk keselamatan, apabila itu video bocor, video akan spread sehingga hujung dunia dalam beberapa saat saja, kehidupan pun akan berubah. seperti mangsa tersebut~

Diharapkan tolong jangan download dan dapatkan gambar mereka, dan menyebarkan, mereka ialah mangsa, kita sebatutnya membantu mangsa, bukannya memburukan keaadaan, bayangkan kalau kamu yang kena.

sekian~~