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The Internet has an uncanny ability to draw out the crazies. Movie director Uwe Boll challenged his Internet critics to a boxing match. A biologist wrote a book review and was subsequently sued for "assault, libel and slander." Now the Video Professor, the charming older gentleman who appears in commercials pitching your mom to learn Excel spreadsheets and how to surf the Web with his handy series of instructional DVDs, is suing 100 posters on infomercialscams.com for "unauthorized Internet disparagement." His critics claim that John Scherer's Video Professor has a habit of signing people up for subscriptions they don't want. As punishment for voicing such opinions, Video Professor is trying to obtain the posters' IP addresses so it can sue each one individually. That'll teach you to surf the Web.
Learn to handle criticism with Video Professor
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1:15 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Mary Jane Irwin
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Um... a friend of mine... used to do disputes for a credit card company and he had problems with video professor not cancelling subscriptions when asked to. Please don't tell anyone my IP address.
Dr. Phil teaches Excel?
Wow... this begs the question "What does authorized Internet disparagement look like?"
I wonder if the 177 people at ripoffreport.com are next?
They are infamous for such tactics, porn site style, the everlasting "teacher", avoid Video Professor at all costs, not that the Valley would be a primary market. But their con-artist tactics are well well well-documented, frankly some State Attorney General should get some grit and go after them.
And (also) don't share my IP, but they will have fun suing Starbucks, Office Depot or whatever random jumping hotspots this godforsaken Vista grabbed then, like 14 to choose from, this newly-firmwared N laptop card, sure is a heck of a distance improvement.
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