Gawker on the Ropes over Fred Durst's Penis
Fred Durst: Touch My Balls And My Ass And Then Sue Gawker
Looks like Gawker are in trouble over hosting the Fred Durst sex video (his phone was hacked):
Honestly, though, we don’t know why you’re so mad at us. The situation is really rather simple. Someone sent us a link to a video of your penis, we went into shock, and we shared it with the world for about 2 hours. Then we wept, found God, took a hot bath, and removed the video from our site.
But nothing we do is ever good enough for you, is it? Your exotic Californian lawyers sent us a cease-and-desist order on Monday, 3 days after we had already taken the video down. You were still hurting and we understood, but now you’ve gone and filed suit against us. We don’t get it – we complied before you even got around to wasting paper on us, and now you want to take away what few shekels we have.
Gawker, run by Nick Denton is famous for Gizmodo among other blogs.
Jason Calacanis, who heads Weblogs Inc of Engadget fame is proclaiming the End of Gawker - and it could well be if Fred "grab my ass" Durst of limpbizkit stupidity doesn't back off like a good little foot stomper and deal with it like a.... bizkit?
wow
what a sex face that is.
Fanning the flames
What astonishes me is the fact that the Gawker posts only serves to make young Freddy madder - his lawyers could destroy Gawker, so they choose to make it worse?
Madness...
Some Might Say
I think it was Malcom Mclaren (ex-Sex Pistols manager) who said "bad publicity isn't as good as good publicity. It's ten times better".
There's no accounting for hubris. Methinks certain bloggers might find themselves in way, way over their heads.
If it weren't for this...
His phone getting hacked, his number getting found on PH's when it was hacked... no one would even remember who he is.
Someone should send his publicist a cease and desist order and let us all get on with being fascinated by different boring people.
Funny
what a sex face that is.
Hehe, that tickled me, 'sex face' classic.