10 Lessons Of a Celebrity Porn Scandal

10. Celebrities have more fun than regular people.

(From CNET News.com) It all began last year, when [Chinese movie star] Edison Chen ... dropped off his custom pink MacBook at a repair shop. Then in late January, thousands of sexually explicit images began appearing on the Internet that showed Chen in rather compromising positions with eight of the region's most popular actresses and singers.

9. If there is porn on your computer, a tech geek will find it.

(CNET News.com) Authorities say the images were illegally copied from the computer by repair technicians.

8. If you are a celebrity and have naked pictures of yourself and other celebrities on your computer, and then your computer breaks, DO NOT take it somewhere to get repaired.

See No. 9.

7. You can't unring the Internet porn bell.

(CNET News.com) Chen has apologized for the photos and has asked Web users not to aid the spread of the images. However, the crush of interest in celebrity-obsessed China has crashed servers in Hong Kong and the China mainland, with one online discussion board generating more than 25 million page views and 140,000 comments, according to a report in The Guardian.

6. But you can sound pretty pathetic trying to.

(CNET News.com) "I urge you to please destroy them immediately," Chen said. "Let's help the wounded heal their wounds. I urge you to help the victims and not make it any worse."

5. The "gate" suffix not only won't die, it's gone global.

(xinhua.net) Netizens from about 40 websites have said they will not look at or pass on the hundreds of pornographic star photos which began circulating on the Internet during the Spring Festival and which have been dubbed Pornogate.

4. They take their porn laws pretty seriously in China.

(China.org.cn) Chinese police have apprehended 10 suspects for allegedly producing, selling and purchasing discs of Hong Kong's nude celebrity photos in the southern city of Shenzhen.

3. They take their porn laws pretty seriously in China, Part 2.

(BBC News) Chinese authorities closed down 44,000 websites and arrested 868 people last year in a campaign against internet pornography, state media has reported.

2. For headline writers, 'Celebrity Porn Scandal' is a triptych of perfection.