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Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics
Techdirt is reporting that the Video Professor Company is suing 100 anonymous critics of their company. The Video Professor is known for their television ads hawking DVDs that teach you various skills like how to use your computer. Most of the complaints center around how their "free" product offering automagically signs you up for a subscription. Instead of addressing the concerns the Video Professor has decided to take the litigious route.
My Aunt got one of these video's once. She returned it after a couple of weeks... she could figure out how to put it into the computer. I didn't come with any instructions.
...that all publicity is good publicity. "We're video professor. Some people think our products aren't very good. We want those people to shut the hell up."
Anything to distract them from producing more of those really annoying TV ads! Hopefully the lawyers will suck up their entire marketing budget for the next few years!
got his or her legal education from a series of DVDs.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
November's DVD of the month is "how to create your own legal pleadings" with Video Professor's MS-Office accessories training 'product' ?
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don't try my product.
Yes.
I predict the class will be awarded a voucher for a free credit report courtesy of freecreditreport.com.
I didn't come with any instructions, either.
My, uh, "friend" has this problem, see. What should I^H he do about it?
Judge: "So who are you suing exactly?"
Video Professor: "Anonymous."
Judge: "Uh, clerk, who exactly is 'Anonymous?'"
Clerk: "Well Your Honor, I read slashdot and the only 'Anonymous' I know are cowards."
Video Professor: "They certainly are!"
Judge: "Would 'Anonymous' please stand and be recognized by the court."
One soul stands...
Clerk: "Please sit down CowboyNeal."
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Hey, now! Stop trying to wreck our fun with your logic and your grubby little facts! :P
I may be wrong, but I'm never uncertain.
How to sue 10000 anonymous critics from Slashdot.
...Video Professor isn't available in HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. I mean really, what's up with that?
I, for one, welcome you.
You should seriously consider returning you.
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson
RMS? You DID come. I knew if I built a hideous brown themed slashdot area, you'd finally arrive.
Update: Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics and Junior Samples.
Man, I do! Or, at least, I want to see the movie. Finally, a good reason for a Golden Girls reunion! (And, yes, they are all still alive, though Estelle Getty is apparently in extremely poor health.)
The Video Professor ought not to worry about his reputation. People who need his videos don't know how to get on the Internet to read the reviews in the first place.
On his front page, he has a link on how to learn the Internet (2004!) for the people who are so confused that they actually used the Internet to find out how to learn the Internet. Of course he's prepared to show you the Internet of three years ago because the new, modern Internet might be too much for his clientèle to handle (sarcasm intended).
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
oh...so THAT'S where that damned BOWFLEX came from!
I'm still compiling it!
Ah, Bowflex: The world's most expensive clothes hanger.
If there are suckers who don't bother to read the print and take the steps necessary to opt out, and they go around telling people that the company is engaged in fraud when they aren't, those people should be sued. It's libel to make false statements like that, and there really isn't anything else that can be done to put a stop to it.
I'm simply swinging my fists and walking forward. If there are siblings who don't bother to get out of my way, and they go around telling mom that I'm hitting them, those people should be spanked.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Yeah, look how well it's worked out for SCO!
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it