OT: How TMZ gets the videos and photos that celebrities want to hide.

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Remember "CastGate".
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Not talked about in this very long article, but still an interesting piece.

According to a former security supervisor at the Revel, nearly eighteen hundred cameras streamed video to a pair of monitoring rooms on the mezzanine floor. After guards responded to the incident in the lobby, several surveillance officers gathered and wondered aloud if a tape of Rice and Palmer could be sold to TMZ—the Web site that, since its inception, in 2005, has taken a merciless approach to celebrity news.

At around 4:30 a.m., one of the surveillance officers, sitting at a monitoring-room computer, reviewed footage from a camera that faced the elevator and, using a cell phone, surreptitiously recorded the screen. The officer then called TMZ.

TMZ Redefines Celebrity Dirt

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/inside-harvey-levins-tmz