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Fark vs. Fox: here come the lawyers

Valleywag first reported the allegations last month, and now lawyers for news aggregation site Fark.com have made it official. This week, a lawsuit was filed in a Lexington, Kentucky courthouse alleging that a Kentucky-based Fox News reporter attempted to hack into Fark's servers. The one surprise — the defendants are named as "John Does 1-10," instead of an individual person. But that doesn't mean that the main suspect, Fox News reporter Darrell Phillips (pictured above right, after the jump), is off the hook. "We needed to be able to file subpoenas to get the final information from his net service providers," Fark.com founder Drew Curtis (pictured above left) IM'ed earlier today. Have more information on this developing story? Let us know.

12:51 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Megan McCarthy
415 views, 2 comments

Latest by bbucy: I hope Curtis shares all of his documentation with the FBI and the U.S. attorney. I'd love to see Phillips more »

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Fark legal net tightens on Fox-linked hacker

Richard Thompson, a blogger who tracks the Memphis, Tenn. news scene at Mediaverse Memphis, has done a follow-up interview with Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com. Last week, Curtis, left, fingered Darrell Phillips, to his right, a new media manager at News Corp.-owned TV station WHBQ Fox13, as an all-but-certain suspect behind attempts to hack into the site. He based his accusation on an all-but-conclusive trail of electronic evidence. Thompson, at first skeptical of the accusation, seems to be giving it more credence, as Curtis confirmed that Fark has plans underway to seek legal action. After the jump, the latest revelations. More »

9:43 AM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By Owen Thomas
2,677 views, 3 comments

Latest by bbucy: Thompson describes Phillips as "one of the best new media managers in the Memphis market. . ." Frankly, I think more »

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How a Fox-linked hacker failed to fool Fark

Last week, Drew Curtis, left, the founder of Fark.com, the outrageous social-news website, accused Darrell Phillips, to his right, an employee at a News Corp.-owned Fox TV station in Memphis, Tenn., of attempting to hack into Fark. More »

3:22 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Owen Thomas
47,929 views, 1 comment

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Fark founder accuses Fox newsman of hacking

Local TV reporters are infamous for practicing "ambush" journalism — but as they try to take their gotcha practices to the Web, increasingly they're the ones ambushed. The first rule of hacking, after all, is "Don't get caught." And Fox newsman Darrell Phillips may have broken that rule, Drew Curtis has told Valleywag. Curtis, left, is the founder of Fark.com, a thoroughly juvenile, and entertaining, social news site where users pick the headlines. Phillips, to his right, is the new media manager at WHBQ Fox13, a News Corp.-owned TV station in Memphis, Tenn. And Curtis claims to have assembled all-but-conclusive electronic evidence that Phillips has tried to hack into Fark's servers, potentially breaking several laws. More »

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10:17 AM on Fri Aug 17 2007
By Owen Thomas
87,317 views, 13 comments

Latest by white trash mom: Just one more reason I love Fark.com. I have to agree with LilRicky, however, on the reporter having the more »