Unfortunately for Paris Hilton, life was simpler before the advent of the Internet - despite threats of legal action by her parents, the vixen's steamy sex tape is now readily available for you.

In less technologically advanced times, the hotel heiress' family fortune might have been enough to buy her an innocent reputation.

But nowadays, any interested onlooker can quickly and easily download the X-rated romp between Hilton and ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who's also the on-again, off-again husband of 90210 actress, Shannen Doherty.

The tape was reportedly shot three years ago, when Hilton was a barely-legal 19 and Salomon was 30, and when rumors of the tape first surfaced, Hilton denied its existence, calling Salomon "a complete liar and scumbag" in New York magazine, but she was later forced to backpedal after it become obvious that the video was all too real.

The Hilton publicity machine kicked into high-gear last week in a frantic attempt to de-tarnish Paris' already besmirched rep and to strike guilt into the hearts of those who would circulate the tawdry footage - "The Hilton family is greatly saddened at how low human beings will stoop to exploit their daughter, Paris, who is sweet-natured, for their own self-promotion as well as profit motives," read a statement released by the family.

It's a whole new kind of reality TV for Hilton, who's the star of Fox's riches-to-rags reality series The Simple Life, now coming into it's third series.  The negative publicity surrounding Hilton and Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie (Lionel's daughter has also done a stint in rehab following a heroin bust) simply proved there is no such such thing as bad publicity.

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