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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. Great! by kbob88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  2. It's not just about the "free" CDs either. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    One guy, from this link in TFA, says that he tried to order the Quickbooks tutorial from the Video Professor. The website gave a confirmation page that listed some product other than what he ordered. Then, they start sending me other tutorials, but he never requested those. On top of it, he tries to order the Quickbooks tutorial again a couple months later, but this time he calls them. They tell him he already ordered that one, but offer to send him is order for free, since it was supposed to arrive back in March. In the end, he never got the product he actually ordered.

    Doesn't sound like a company I'd do business with. Ever.

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  3. Interesting... by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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  4. Re:this is why we have tort law by afabbro · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Do any of you realize how stupid you sound complaining about tort law, which has existed as a key part of societies for several centuries, almost the world over?

    That's why I also never complain about war, crime, poverty, disease, or dictatorships. If it's old, it must be good!

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  5. 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!).

  6. Re:Who needs these classes? by beckerist · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh...so THAT'S where that damned BOWFLEX came from!