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Whois but don't bug her, she wrote a nice apology on her other website: http://katiet.com/

From the press release on katiet.com: ...I never believed that I had any right to the name Katie.com as a website but simply viewed it to be the name of my book. That being said, I never wanted anyone to experience unwanted emails or traffic on the Internet. As someone who has been abused, I would certainly not wish to cause anybody pain. Therefore, I sincerely apologize to Katie Jones for any suffering she may have endured.

A recent American Psychological Association (APA) site has a synopsis of a study on online sexual abuse found that despite what the news organisations and various other screamers and shouters may want us to think, online sexual abuse cases are NOT characterised by deception, abduction, or force. In short most of those "abused" went consensually, knowing what was going to happen.
Also note the similarities between what was studied and what REALLY happened to Katie Tarbox

I would imagine it wouldn't take much dissuading... why would she want to drive traffic to katie.com?
Chances are this is already in the works; they'll change the promotion material to drive traffic to the appropriate site.

There are eight book covers pictured on the home page of KatieT.com and they all show the former title of katie.com. I expect they'll change those soon, too.

Additionally, please also understand that while I have worked with Parry Aftab, she is not my lawyer, and I never asked anyone to speak with Ms. Jones about her website.

The author of the book has her own "vanity" domain name, katieT.com. Why the hell wouldn't you just use this for the title instead of dragging somebody else through all of this crap.

Here's what KatieT had to say about it

http://www.katiet.com/message1.htm

Today I am very excited to announce that Katie.com will be re-released and re-named A Girl's Life Online. From the beginning, I hoped that Penguin and Katie Jones would be able to resolve this issue. I never believed that I had any right to the name Katie.com as a website but simply viewed it to be the name of my book. That being said, I never wanted anyone to experience unwanted emails or traffic on the Internet. As someone who has been abused, I would certainly not wish to cause anybody pain. Therefore, I sincerely apologize to Katie Jones for any suffering she may have endured.

Today I am very excited to announce that Katie.com will be re-released and re-named A Girl's Life Online. From the beginning, I hoped that Penguin and Katie Jones would be able to resolve this issue. I never believed that I had any right to the name Katie.com as a website but simply viewed it to be the name of my book. That being said, I never wanted anyone to experience unwanted emails or traffic on the Internet. As someone who has been abused, I would certainly not wish to cause anybody pain. Therefore, I sincerely apologize to Katie Jones for any suffering she may have endured.

See, that's interesting.

If you check out Katiesplace.org, you see Katie T, and Parry Aftab's name promenantly.

If you check out Katie T's projects page, she also mentions Parry Aftab as being part of these projects.

If you check out Parry's blog, she talks about katiesplace.com being a collaboration between her and Katie T.

Nope. Sounds like Parry is working with Katie T to me, as shown by publicly available information on the pages "controlled" by the respective folks. Thus, Katie Jones still has the story with more easily verifiable truth to it.

I don't think I'd make a good lawyer, because there's no fight and no money in my solution...

I don't think I'd make a good lawyer, because there's no fight and no money in my solution...

Okay, then. To start with:
http://us.penguingroup.com/Book/BookFrame/0,,,00.h tml?id=0452282535 or better yet, use the Search function on that site http://us.penguingroup.com/Search/QuickSearchFrame ?id=katie%21com Penguin UK (returns a "Sorry...")
Penguin Putnam (USA) search...
http://www.aftab.com
http://ParryAftab.blogspot.com/;
http://www.KatieT.com noting the various translations of the book that have all used the same (incorrect) URL/name;
http://www.KatiesPlace.org/pages/1/index.htm;
http://www.wiredsafety.org/

KatieT's lawyer, Parry Aftab, is certainly not lacking in ego - there is a section on her website where she revels in the title "Angel of the Internet":

For the amount of time and personal sacrifice Parry has devoted to making sure that everyone, especially children, can learn to use the Internet safely, privately and responsibly, Parry is often called the "Angel of the Internet." (emphasis added)

She is obviously aware of the problems they are causing, as referenced in her blog entry titled Katie Tarbox and Katie.com (the book, not the site) - Monday, July 26, 2004.

One can only gues that KatieT is making as much of this opportunity as she can - after all, she is unlikely to publish any other books of significance making basic editing mistakes on the front page of her website:

As an advocate and expert in this field, I realize that the dangers that lye on the Internet will continue to exist unless we as a collective make the effort to prevent those dangers. (emphasis added)

Shame on KatieT for harrassing the rightful domain owner - I hope she realises that it will undermine what she hopes to achieve in the long term.

This is an excerpt from her book. http://www.katiet.com/exerpts.htm. Here's a description of her town:

I was in the eighth grade, and for the first time I was really obsessed with my appearance, my status, with fitting in. This is understandable, if you consider that I was growing up in America, and in New Canaan, Connecticut. New Canaan is the richest town in the richest state in the country. The moms all drive Suburbans and the dads all take the train to the city. And by the time they are ten years old, the kids in New Canaan know that the highest-grade BMW is not as nice as the best Mercedes. They know that you should never be seen cutting your own lawn, and that embossed stationery is far superior to lithographed.

You do realize, of course, that posting Penguin's email addresses on a popular website such as Slashdot is CRAZY! Lots of spam spiders crawl Slashdot all the time, and they are likely to get spa...

oh. Right. -J

I call BULLSHIT! Society doesn't make fucking victims - stupidity does. I had a pretty shitty home life growing up, in the poorest of neighborhoods, broken home, all that shit - I didn't end up like the majority of my peers (in jail, broke, living off handouts from honest taxpayers) because I realized at an early age that I was responsible for my own actions, and the consequences thereof. I am sick and tired of people giving kids a green light to fuck up because they are young - were you that stupid as a teen?

No control or knowledge my ass - it's HER LAWYER not the publisher pursuing this.

While I agree that it is not right to wish further ills on the author over this, it is not right to support her and her publishers either. A brief look at katiet.com shows that her rough childhood has likely made her a quite well off adult, and the argument that she has no control over the decisions of her publisher are utter bullshit - they need her to be able to promote the damn book, so she has pull. Futher, just because something bad happened to you in the past, being a thief still makes you a thief and if her lawyer (working on her behalf, that she has the ability to hire and fire) succeeds, Katie Tarbow will be exactly that, a thief.

A bit off-topic...

So I went to the site to see what the author had posted on her site in regards to this issue. Not much of anything, really, except...

There is a link in her nav for "Exerpts." I ain't no grammar guy, but it didn't look quite right to me, so I went to m-w.com and was told that "The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary."

Is "Exerpts" like, a British spelling or something?

And a bit on-topic, I find the publisher and the author's behavior reprehensible in this matter. I will no longer buy Penguin Putnam books should they succeed in bullying this person, regardless of what her site is used for.

Check out this cow.

I ask everyone to join me in clicking the hell out of http://www.katiet.com/store.htm .

No, she didn't deserve what happened to her, but K Jones doesn't deserve all of this bulls*** either.

Bandwidth avengers, unite!

http://www.katiet.com/

Damn Law-iots....

Please send your complaints to Katiet.com, which is the web site of the Penguin book that is causing all this fuss.

If the author gets flooded with mail about her predatory behavior, something might happen.

The autor's address is katie@katiet.com

Penguin couldn't care less.

Please send your complaints to Katiet.com, which is the web site of the Penguin book that is causing all this fuss.

If the author gets flooded with mail about her predatory behavior, something might happen.

The autor's address is katie@katiet.com

Penguin couldn't care less.