The Streisand Effect

In 2003, a picture of Barbara Streisand's home in Malibu appeared in a publicly available collection of over 12,000 photos. Her lawyers filed a $50 million lawsuit against the photographer asking the picture be taken down for privacy reasons. Before stories of the lawsuit hit the press, the photo of the home had only been downloaded six times. During the following month, after the whole thing became a news story, more than 400,000 people visited the website. They even coined the term the Streisand effect were in an attempt to censoring or removing something from the internet results and said thing being seen and reported on much more.