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Can Bezos get a US court to impound the photos? Something akin to the UK 'super injunction'?

That would make being caught leaking the photos perjury. The stakes are so high that AMI might well not dare to do that.

Its easy to imagine that Bezos, whatever he is saying publicly, is also getting excellent legal consul privately and that two can play at the games that AMI is so infamous for.

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Why? Because he doesn't want everyone to know that he has a penis?

The kind of people who care about "celebrity gossip" will have no idea who he is, and the people who do know who he is won't care. There is no market for these photos.

Because he wants to cost them a lot of money?

We all hate when the big guys use lawsuits to stifle the little guys, but getting AMI execs tied up in legal worries and costs seems, in this instance, to have popular appeal?

Everyone enjoys watching a bully have their bluff called.

He could get an injunction. That would make leaking them contempt of court, not perjury, and the stakes aren't particularly high for that.

I'm sure Mr. Bezos is familiar with the Streisand Effect.

Revenge porn laws seem like a valid counterpoint to the Streisand Effect. Even without that, you’re going to share his nudes just because he doesn’t want you to? Gross.

Nope. We have no prior restraint here.

All 50 States have statutes that allow for preliminary injunctions... If Bezos filed a lawsuit he could absolutely seek a court order restraining AMI from publishing the photos pending the outcome of a lawsuit. See, for example: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.40.020

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