It amazes me how much some people just don't understand freedom of speech and the internet.
Video Professor upset by criticism, sues 100 anonymous critics
You know that friendly old guy on tv who tries to help old people and housewives to use their computers better, yeah, that guy. Reading through the Ars Technica article and the comments on infomercialscams.com I can not find any leg for VPI to stand on. These are actual customers who tried to get the "free offer" and found it to not be what they expected so returned whatever merchandise they were sent. Many of them found charges on their credit cards for things they never asked for and despite promises of refunds, have not received any money back. According to Ars, the lawsuit doesn't even mention specific posts but wants ip addresses and any user info from the site. Unfortunately, some judge thought this was a good idea and gave them a subpoena to do it.
These people are posting legitimate complaints about a product and a company's policies and customer service and possibly illegal activities. What about any of that is derogatory or defamatory if it isn't true. With credit card statements to back up their claims, most of those people can probably prove their cases. The problem here is VPI should never be allowed to get their information based on the content of that site.
Unauthorized Criticism?
Is there such a thing? I don't think so!
VPI claims the people posting the remarks are committing "unauthorized Internet disparagement of VPI and its products". What a FUCKING JOKE! Since when do you need a company's permission to complain about their products and service? What a bunch of Fucktards!
Not all publicity is good publicity
There are cases where any publicity is better than none, but this is not one of them. VPI has just opened up a can of worms and the shit will now hit the fan BIG TIME! I never heard of this site infomercialscams.com before, but now I have and I read about people's complaints with VPI. No doubt other people are reading that too, and now more people will be passing that info on to family and friends who might consider ordering from that company. They took an obscure web site and made it famous. Did they learn nothing from the SCO fiasco? This will only backfire on them.
In conlcusion...
Video Professor, I've never needed or used your products, and never will. I will never recommend your products to anyone because I don't like companies who try to stifle people's rights online. So I'd just like to finish this up with one last FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING SHITTY ASSHOLE MOTHERFUCKING FUCKTARDS! (pardon my tourettes)
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