Jul 28, 2009 9:47 am US/Central
Patrick: Nude Andrews Video Result Of Internet Age
ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews Subject Of 'Peeping Tom' Video
EDMONTON, Alberta (CBS) ―
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Danica Patrick attends the Barnstable Brown Party Celebrating The 135th Kentucky Derby at Barnstable Brown House on May 1, 2009, in Louisville, Ky.
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Commentator Erin Andrews of ESPN reports from the sidelines as the University of Miami Hurricanes host the Texas A&M Aggies at the Orange Bowl on September 20, 2007 in Miami, Florida. Miami won 31-17.
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Danica Patrick is sounding off on an illegally recorded video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in the buff.
Patrick says the peeping-tom video is yet another example of a public figure experiencing an invasion of privacy in the Internet age.
"I don't think there's getting away from it right now," the IndyCar driver said in an interview Friday during practice for the Rexall Edmonton Indy. "It's not going to go away any time soon, probably not as long as I'm exposed in public and racing.
"But I would imagine there's going to be a certain point in time where there's probably going to be some sort of rules and enforcement as to the limit and the boundary line for what people are able to do and what they're able to plug into their computer."
The blurry, five-minute video that was circulating on the Web shows Andrews standing in front of a
hotel room mirror, fixing her hair in the nude. It's unknown when or
where it was shot.
There were early reports that hackers were using the video to trap click-happy web surfers to download dangerous malware to their
computers, according to computer security website,
sophos.com.
Andrews, who
joined ESPN in 2004, has become a popular fixture on the network and the web as a vivacious and beautiful reporter. Andrews, 31, has covered hockey, college football, college basketball and Major League Baseball for the Disney-owned network since 2004, often as a sideline reporter during games.
A former dance team member at the University of Florida, she was something of an Internet sensation even before the video's circulation. She has been referred to as "Erin Pageviews" because of the traffic that video clips and photos of her generate, and Playboy magazine named her "sexiest sportscaster" in both 2008 and 2009.
It was not clear when the video first appeared on the Internet. Most of the links to it had been removed by Tuesday.
Celebrity website TMZ reported Monday that it was approached by someone trying
to sell the video. "It appears the video was shot from some sort of spy
cam. It looks as if someone drilled a small hole in her hotel room from
an adjoining room,"
according to TMZ. The website has no intention of purchasing the tape, according to its
report, insisting that it would be a clear invasion of privacy.
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