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Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site?

Posted by timothy on from the just-keep-backups dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ok, bear with me now. I know this is not PC Mag 2014 review of hosting services. I am thinking of getting a parody website up. I am mildly concerned about potential reaction of the parodee, who has been known to be a little heavy handed when it comes to things like that. In short, I want to make sure that the hosting company won't flake out just because of potential complaints. I checked some companies and their TOS and AUPs all seem to have weird-ass restrictions (Arvixe, for example, has a list of unacceptable material that happens to list RPGs and MUDS ). I live in U.S.; parodee in Poland. What would you recommend?"

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  1. What I recommend by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Based on this

    I am mildly concerned about potential reaction of the parodee, who has been known to be a little heavy handed when it comes to things like that.

    I recommend a good lawyer.

    See Beck v. Eiland-Hall as to why.

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    1. Re: What I recommend by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That seemed to come out in favour of the satirist.

      IMHO only because of the lawyer backing him up.

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  2. Here's an idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    How about not posting it. Lets see here. You want to post parody about someone that you already know that they won't find funny. Parody is typically done in good humor with the rather major exception of when public figures are involved. If you're not willing to state who the person is on slashdot and you know the person isn't going to be amused, you probably shouldn't be doing it at all.

    I'm not arguing if you're allowed to, I'm just arguing the "don't be an asshole" argument.