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Kendra Wilkinson has been battling Vivid over the release of a sex tape the contents of which no one seems to know or care about…
From www.scrapetv.com – The contents of the tape have not yet been revealed, and Wilkinson is reportedly fighting the release of the video, but thus far it’s not completely clear who might be interested in watching the video should it come to market.
“The video is private and highly confidential taken for private use and not for public disclosure. Any exploitation of the video would be a gross violation of Miss Wilkinson’s constitutional and common law rights of privacy,” Wilkinson’s lawyer wrote to Adult company Vivid. The letter did not suggest who might actually be interested in seeing the video.
Vivid for its part defended their right to distribute the video and fought back with legal threats of their own. Vivid has long been one of the leading adult entertainment companies but has been in decline for a number of years due to internet piracy and questionable creative choices.
“Obviously Wilkinson is going to fight the release of this tape. That’s part of the modus operandi when it comes to sex tapes. You feign protest and then reap the rewards of fame and money without looking like that’s what you were trying to do. It’s a slightly overused ploy at this point but is still fairly effective, particularly when it comes to small scale situations like this where the analysis isn’t quite as severe,” said Scrape TV Business analyst Ken Green.
“However the real question here is in what the intrinsic and material value of this tape will be. I can’t imagine that there are a whole lot of Kendra Wilkinson fans out there so the audience will be limited. She’s a beautiful woman no doubt but there are a lot of beautiful women in sex tapes all over the internet, mostly for free, so why would anyone want to pay for this? You have to wonder what edge Vivid believes they have in this.”
The company is believed to keep a lawyer on retainer meaning that the legal costs might be minimal which could boost the ultimate value of the tape.
“If Hugh Hefner were in the tape it would be worth a mint despite the fact that he’s older than, well older than a whole bunch of things but at least he has celebrity. The reason these things are successful is because people want to see someone they know having sex. It’s easy to watch a stranger having sex and altogether less compelling,” continued Green.
“Of course they could normalize her somewhat and create a small market. They can make her into a slight celebrity through this ‘controversy’ then they might have something, but that is a big question.”
A poll indicated that almost no one was interested in watching the video.