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Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sco-business-model dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Calling all lawyers by the_womble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They just got some PR that they didn't need.
    Just like Alisher Usmanov just found out, in Britain, when hundreds of bloggers posted the story he was trying to suppress.

    I would have thought that the issues raised by this are a lot more important (especially given that he has shut down blogs belonging to MP's, a candidate for Mayor of London etc.), but Slashdot is too US centric to care about what happens across the Atlantic (even though you can be sued for libel in the UK, if just one person in Britain views your website based anywhere in the world - so slashdot better not libel me!).