Canon Tries To Shut Down "Fake" Canon Blog 125
Thomas Hawk writes "An interesting twist over at the Fake Chuck Westfall Blog. Fake Chuck (like Fake Steve before him) has a blog out parodying Canon's real Technical Information Advisor Chuck Westfall. It seems that Canon and their lawyers over at Loeb & Loeb are none too fond of all the fun that Fake Chuck and DSLR geeks everywhere have been having at their expense and have sent Fake Chuck's blog hosting company, WordPress, a notice to take the blog down. Canon's lawyers cite that Fake Chuck's blog is 'calculated to mislead recipients,' even though the blog has 'fake' in the title, 'fake' in the URL and 'fake' just about everywhere else in the blog. What in the heck is wrong with Canon? Do they really think that trying to shut down a parody blog is going to make their new 5D Mark II ship any faster?" After Fake Chuck removed the Canon logo from his site, WordPress is standing behind him and has rebuffed Canon's demand.
Fake First Post (Score:5, Funny)
This post has fake all over it, so you can't mod it down.
MS fakery (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You'd think by now... (Score:5, Funny)
In this case, though, the views expressed are decidedly noncanonical.
Fake MWoody says... (Score:5, Funny)
...I'm a complete moron!
--Fake MWoody
Re:Thanks to Canon and Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Wha says that's not what they were going for? These are sneaky bastards these corporate types. It's difficult tfor us straight thinking peeps to get a handle on them.
Re:Fake First Post (Score:5, Funny)
I only have fake mod points today, so I fake modded you down.
Re:You'd think by now... (Score:5, Funny)
I tried to mod you offtopic but I ended up modding you insightful.