Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics

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.

Re:Calling all lawyers

[b1gk1tty]

My Aunt got one of these video's once. She returned it after a couple of weeks... she could figure out how to put it into the computer. I didn't come with any instructions.

Disproving the notion...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that all publicity is good publicity. "We're video professor. Some people think our products aren't very good. We want those people to shut the hell up."

Great!

[kbob88]

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!

I hope their lawyer . . .

[rev_sanchez]

got his or her legal education from a series of DVDs.

I wonder if

[zappepcs]

November's DVD of the month is "how to create your own legal pleadings" with Video Professor's MS-Office accessories training 'product' ?

Please....

[m93]

don't try my product.

Anybody smell a class action lawsuit?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes.

I predict the class will be awarded a voucher for a free credit report courtesy of freecreditreport.com.

Re:Calling all lawyers

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't come with any instructions, either.

Re:I hope their lawyer . . .

[GungaDan]

I got mine at the Costco.

Hey, Doctor...

[XanC]

My, uh, "friend" has this problem, see. What should I^H he do about it?

Interesting...

[Capt James McCarthy]

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."

Re:Great!

[giorgiofr]

Oh it's easy, he does just like me, he hears all about it from the boring people around him.

Re:this is why we have tort law

[Flarg!]

Hey, now! Stop trying to wreck our fun with your logic and your grubby little facts! :P

His next DVD

[LM741N]

How to sue 10000 anonymous critics from Slashdot.

Worse yet

[British]

...Video Professor isn't available in HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. I mean really, what's up with that?

Re:Great!

[Dionysus]

You're this guy [theonion.com], aren't you?

Re:Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome you.

Re:Calling all lawyers

[feed_me_cereal]

You should seriously consider returning you.

Re:Of course

[Anarke_Incarnate]

RMS? You DID come. I knew if I built a hideous brown themed slashdot area, you'd finally arrive.

Re:Video Professor Software May Contain Malware

[Anonymous Coward]

Update: Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics and Junior Samples.

Re:Of course

[Babbster]

I don't want to see little old ladies becoming hitmen just because society deems them immune from the law.

Man, I do! Or, at least, I want to see the movie. Finally, a good reason for a Golden Girls reunion! (And, yes, they are all still alive, though Estelle Getty is apparently in extremely poor health.)

He needn't worry

[mhollis]

The Video Professor ought not to worry about his reputation. People who need his videos don't know how to get on the Internet to read the reviews in the first place.

On his front page, he has a link on how to learn the Internet (2004!) [videoprofessor.com] for the people who are so confused that they actually used the Internet to find out how to learn the Internet. Of course he's prepared to show you the Internet of three years ago because the new, modern Internet might be too much for his clientèle to handle (sarcasm intended).

Re:I hope their lawyer . . .

[zerocool^]

We don't have time for a handjob right now, Joe.

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Re:Calling all lawyers

[Jello B.]

I'm still compiling it!

Re:Who needs these classes?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, Bowflex: The world's most expensive clothes hanger.

Re:The right to screw

[tsm_sf]

If there are suckers who don't bother to read the print and take the steps necessary to opt out, and they go around telling people that the company is engaged in fraud when they aren't, those people should be sued. It's libel to make false statements like that, and there really isn't anything else that can be done to put a stop to it.

I'm simply swinging my fists and walking forward. If there are siblings who don't bother to get out of my way, and they go around telling mom that I'm hitting them, those people should be spanked.

Re:Calling all lawyers

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, look how well it's worked out for SCO!

Re:The right to screw

[tehcyder]

in this case the "fine print" is written on a stone tablet in the middle of the african jungle in an obscure dialect of sanscrit

Was the tablet in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard"?