I honestly see the paparazzi photo scene as comparable to child porn (obviously, lesser, but on the same scale). Here we have a mass market of seemingly ordinary people consuming violations of other people in a way that makes it clear they don't see the victims as other than a source of titillation, an industry that serves this content up to them out of pure asocial greed, and these photographers actually going out there and committing the violations, because it's fun and the money is good if you don't have a working conscience and can depersonalize your prey. Each blames the others.

Guilty, all of them.

I'll only read this if someone copies it and pastes it to another site with the title "12 Crazy Reasons Why the Fast Times Of The Paparazzi Came to a Halt."

Nice that Buzzfeed is doing journalism. Shitty that it's funded off of their content theft...

And nothing of value was lost.

Wow, chalk seeing a BuzzFeed article on HN as one of the last things I thought I'd ever see...

Good riddance.

Any article about paparazzi is not properly balanced without a mention of the way many, many stars actually cooperate with them for media exposure.