Walking by the bookstore, turning on the television or reading incoming messages from a cell phone, people are spending more and more time on reading about other people’s private lives. It started with the influence from the western countries such as paparazzi, gossip, and reality show. Curiosity became a significant issue for everyone including normal people. It began with the reality show fever recorded without a script which is similar to a documentary program.
The reality show can be divided into two types. Firstly, the program that allows a group of people to stay together in the same roof and show their reactions, relationships, their lifestyles, or behaviors live time all day long such as Big Brother, Academy Fantasia and Survivor. Secondly, the program that follows a person or family (the owner of the program normally choose popular people at the time of production) all day to observe their lifestyle such as Nick and Jessica Simpson in newlywed.Sometimes, the producer show inappropriate pictures to the audience. Moreover, the gossip TV programs and magazines were usually created to satisfy audience interest and draw attention from the audience. In addition, the gossip businesses have been encouraging people to follow and take a photo of superstar by rewarding them immensely for an exclusive picture of superstars. Furthermore, this reward encourages people to peek at other people, such as under overcrossing or hidden camera in the restroom. Curiosity of people promotes habit of gossip photographers. Taking a picture while superstar is bending forward or getting off the car in short skirt are threatening signs of paparazzi.
“If they want to be a superstar then they have to accept it” Those superstars cannot charge any photographer because it is the way of entertainment industry. Photographer publishes pictures for business and superstar gain attention from people. Unfortunately, pictures can give both reputation and defamation.
On the other hand, “ I know it is their job as a paparazzi to take the most exclusive picture, but sometime they should have more ethics in their work,” The reason that they do not say anything is because they have to accept it. Sometimes, they are very hurt by the picture, but they cannot do anything about it. Photographer can only apologize to the victim and then the result is the same. They still have the same habit and always try to take exclusive picture over and over again.
With plain curiosity photographers might not know that it is against the law of human right. According to the human right laws, the photographer could be accused of Public Disclosure of Private Facts; publishing information without permission from the owner, Intrusion of Privacy; disconcerting people’s privacy or damage people’s reputation, False Light; using picture with a wrong tendency. Moreover, if a photographer publishes the image on the internet, that he could be accused of section16 “ Any person inputs into a computer system, that is available to public, photographs of another person and such photographs are developed, edited, added or altered by electronic or any other means in a manner that is likely to impair the reputation of that other person, to expose that other person to hatred, contempt or humiliation, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding sixty thousand baht or to both respecting from Computer-Related Crime Act.2008. In addition, the civil law of human right Article 420 said that photographers can be fine of acting without any right or permission.This issue is getting bigger and bigger. There has been a case of paying over one hundred thousand baht to record a video clip of a superstar. For example, the Four-Mod video clip that was taken when they were in a shower has been published in many websites and even on DVDs for sale. The only thing Four- Mod can do is to fine the wrongdoers and telling people to stop forwarding it, and hoping that one day everyone will forget about it. Furthermore, it is not only a big issue among superstar, but also among normal people. The picture and video can be taken by the hidden camera or spy camera hidden in the dressing rooms, restrooms, or motels. Those pictures and video can be published on the internet easily because nowadays there were a lot of websites that support and allow people to upload and watch this kind of Video clip online.
This issue cannot be ended because of the loose policies, officers and webmasters. Nowadays, police cannot take control over the pornography website and pornography DVD business; therefore there are still tons of places where photographers can sell and gain benefit from these pictures. In addition, some webmasters do not strict on their works because they do not take care of the uploaded video clips.
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