Once news broke out about Amy Winehouse’s cocaine scandal I bet many people just had to say “I thought she wouldn’t go to rehab. lol. <stereotype ownz>”. It is indeed right for her to go to rehab because she is quite a danger to herself. Drugs destroy lives and potentially, the lives of the people around the druggie. It’s a great thing that Amy decided to go. Also, it was very sensible of her to not have raised objections to the controversial taping of her cocaine-snorting video.
What if Amy did fight for her rights? What if she forced the issue? Again, the debate of the admissibility of illegitimately recorded evidence or wiretapping will be raised. As of now, wiretapped evidence will not stand in court. A serial-killer, for example, whose guilt was proven solely through wiretapped evidence can object to the validity of the evidence and be successful in doing so. This may seem gruesome and unjust but that is how the system of the United States runs. What more for a lesser crime such as Amy’s? She can indeed prosecute the one who took the video, the sites that show the video and the publications that released her pictures. Her privacy was intruded and it is in her rights to enjoy her privacy. It is quite funny that this situation has a controversial video, a controversial celebrity that can all be (mis)/judged by a controversial law.
It really was nice and smart of her to not have put up a fight.