The man accused of secretly filming sportscaster Erin Andrews in eight videos later posted on the internet has been arrested at Chicago O’Hare airport.

Michael David Barrett, 48, was taken into custody and held on charges of interstate stalking. The FBI discovered that Barrett checked into the same hotel as Andrews in Nashville in September 2008, requesting a room adjacent to her and using his home address. The peephole on Andrews’ room was tampered with and a total of eight videos were recorded in two separate hotel rooms.

Barrett attempted to sell the eight videos to TMZ, whose employees assisted in the investigation. He faces up to five years in federal prison if convicted.

[CNN]

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NFL players themselves are not immune to the Erin Andrews peephole nude video scandal that has swept the Interwebs over the past week, with San Diego Chargers outside linebacker Shaun Phillips asking via Twitter for a copy of the highly-sought-after video.

Phillips tweeted on his personal Twitter account yesterday to Oakland Raiders linebacker Kirk Morrison: “@kirkmorrison52 wheres the erin andrews video son”. After that evidently didn’t work, followed it up with “someone send me the link to the erin andrews video” to the general public.

While he got a fair few replies to his ShaunPhillips95 account, some of the feedback mentioned that he could get infected by one of the trojan attacks that have attached themselves to various versions of the video, moving him to tweet “Ok forget I don’t want a virus but thanks all.”

I would think that the next time Erin Andrews walks into the Chargers locker room after a game, she might give the Phillips locker a wide berth.

via The Rookies

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If the FBI wants to investigate the Erin Andrews peephole video scandal – in which crimes have obviously been committed – then some bloggers are doing some fine preparatory detective work in figuring out whodunit.

Primary among these bloggers is Don Chavez, who has taken time out of his regular “lad” blog schedule to post some heavy duty stuff about the originator of the Erin Andrews video material. There are several surprises in his revelations.

First of these is the fact that the person who uploaded the video to NSFWPOA.com, which is where the scandal got public prominence, may not have been the one who shot the video in the first place. The videos – plural – were originally uploaded to French video site DailyMotion by a 49-year-old user who goes by the nickname of Goblazers1.

The five minute video clip that has now propagated its way across other video hosting sites, plus BitTorrent and Rapidshare, is a compilation from seven separate videos which were uploaded by Goblazers1 as early as February 17 of 2009. Chavez and others have speculated on the identity of Goblazers1 by pointing out places in the US which have sporting teams called the Blazers, such as Portland’s Trailblazers and the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers, but there is no hard evidence on that front.

More importantly, Chavez, who friended Goblazers1 on Daily Motion, logged the IP addresses and dates of the uploaded videos, and has now matched them to locations in the US:

March 10: Montgomery, Alabama
March 12: Atlanta, Georgia
March 19: Dallas, Texas
March 21: Charlotte, North Carolina
March 26: Dallas, Texas
March 27: Dallas, Texas
April 21: Buffalo, New York state
May 6: Chicago, Illinois

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Chavez also argues that because Goblazers1 also uploaded peephole videos of other unidentified women, the culprit is probably not an ESPN employee, something which has been speculated elsewhere.

The FBI is not currently on the case, but they’ve got enough to go on now. Perhaps Mr Chavez can expect a call from law enforcement some time soon.

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If ESPN reporter Erin Andrews had hoped that the worst exposure that the nude peephole video of her taken in a hotel room that was originally uploaded to NSFWpoa.com would have would finish when the only place you could find it was Google’s web caches, she will be disappointed to hear that the video file has now been uploaded to the BitTorrent file sharing network, the RapidShare and is embedded on a page on TheVideoBay Web site.

The Inquisitr will not link to the video in its various locations for obvious legal reasons. The torrented version of the file is advertised on PirateBay with the press release put out by Andrews’ lawyer on PRNewswire.

LOS ANGELES, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — With respect to recent Internet postings of Erin Andrews, she has authorized her attorney, Marshall B. Grossman of Bingham McCutchen LLP, to issue the following statement:

“While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future. Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material. We request respect of Erin’s privacy at this time, while she and her representatives are working with the authorities.”

It seems there will be no stopping the propagation of this video now, despite the threat of legal action by Andrews. ThePirateBay, on which the torrent file is linked, was acquired recently, in part due to legal issues.

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