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Celebrity Justice10/12/2006 11:44 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Screech: Let's Bank From My Sex Tape

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- that's how Dustin Diamond, aka Screech Powers, feels about cashing in on his leaked sex tape.

Diamond defended his recent decision to profit from the tape to Rita Cosby on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" Wednesday, saying "We could spend a fortune fighting it in court, with little bits already being leaked out on the Internet or we could suck it up and say you know what, it could be a losing battle, we'll make money if we just side with it."

Screech also confessed that he had formed a different opinion of his former arch-enemy, video kingpin David Hans Schmidt, even paying a backhanded compliment to the man who has exposed sex tapes of Paris Hilton, Colin Farrell and others. "I tip my hat to the guy ... if someone has a tape out there, they gotta watch out 'cuz chances are he's gonna get a hold of it... the Sultan of Sleaze has done it again and I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar."

Schmidt also appeared on the show and boasted of four more celebrity sex tapes which have recently fallen into his possession -- one featuring a rap artist, another of a celeb who stars on the Bravo network. We're just hoping it's not James Lipton.

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Lisa:  1950 days ago

I think that this whole thing was a set up from the beginning. He needed money, so why not make a sex tape, pretend it got leaked, and now say let's make money

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Ava Rose:  1950 days ago

I definantly agree with Lisa~~What an idiot~~This whole thing just grosses me out!~~

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Tasha:  1950 days ago

Screech in a sex video! You couldn't pay me to watch it for free much less spend my money on it!!!!

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Laurie:  1950 days ago

lol.....i hope it's not john lipton either!!! lol......i can't even begin to imagine HIM nekkid!!!! :-D

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DJc:  1950 days ago

No Naked Screech please....I am kinda surprised he is even having sex...ha ha much less with 2 women. Now his Saved By The Bell buddy Mario Lopez was in Nip/Tuck show in the shower and OMG he has a beautiful body....but Screech...NO THANKS!

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Whatever:  1950 days ago

Does this a**hole screech really think people are going to pay to watch his ugly ass screw? He should pay US to watch that nasty sh*t.

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John C jackson:  1950 days ago

Well, people paid to see another ugly dude named Tommy Lee ( I know Pam was in it, but a lot of people seemed more interested in him) and supposedly Screech has a lot more to look at.

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Amazed:  1949 days ago

I don't guess the T-shirts he was trying to sell to save his house worked out to well, and making a porn video was his next great idea. He played a dumb-@ss on tv and doesnt seem to be much brighter in real life.

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