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Speaking of Vitaly Borker, the cocksucker from the NYT link:

http://brooklyn.blockshopper.com/property/3087270008/56_beaumont_street/
718-332-1226

He says to call anytime, day or night (seriously, I'm not trolling here). Loves his job, I guess.

Even more laughable, the original blockshopper listing for the property bought by senior associate Konrad A. Salaber for $455,000 now just hyperlinks to another site with the same information about the associate.

If we were really curious, we could hyperlink to what knives this associate's new bride Ewelina owns, but providing the public with organized access to information freely available on the internet might get you sued (?). Fortunately, weddingchannel.com isn't going to be suing slashdot anytime soon...

The article makes it seem that Jones Day were pissed off that blockshopper was linking directly to a lawyer's profile, saying "this guy bought a house in such and such area". A look into the blockshopper site shows that their business is apparently reporting on who's buying expensive houses where. Now you can point out that it's all public information and anyone could go and look it up from more scattered sources. But I can understand how people mentioned on the site could get pissed off that blockshopper is telling the world how much they bought their largest investment in life for, and linking it to their work profile etc. So while an injustice may have been done here, I have trouble feeling sympathy for what seems like a seedy, paparazzi wannabee site like blockshopper. Also, the fact that the lawyer was buying the house with another (female) lawyer at the firm makes possible a whole slew of reasons for their "extreme" legal actions.

Well, the lawsuit is about http://chicago.blockshopper.com/

The Jones-Day Chicago office are apparently handling the suit.

Jones Day is based in Cleveland, not Chicago. For such a simple fact, you think a techie would get it right.

Makes me wonder what else the submitter got wrong in the summary.

Techies should stick to writing code and leave the legal issues up to the lawyers.

The lawsuit is about http://chicago.blockshopper.com/

and Jones Day's Chicago office is handling it.

In reviewing the site, I can see how it pisses people off. You get someone mad and they'll find some way to attack. The site canvasses the real estate market in a few large cities and makes not of prominent people that buy or sell property. It then does a mini-bio on the person, sometimes with their picture example. The site is fully within their rights to do so, but I can understand the feelings of a person suddenly showing up on there with their life story just because they bought a house. So, they find loop holes to get it taken down.