Tragic! Fake Steve rocked. But I always knew he(?) was living on borrowed time...

As a clarification, the court judgment cited above is not connected to Apple's current lawsuit against Think Secret. Rather, it concerns the separate Apple v. Does suit, which involved other sites.

Nick dePlume
Publisher and Editor in Chief
Think Secret

We have an interesting controversy brewing in New York regarding Clear Channel removing a billboard advertisement we had placed. Here is a simulation of the billboard:

www.YOURMARKETINGSUCKS.com

(This is also the title of one of our founder's best selling books.) It seems that one executive from a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Net Jets, objected to our billboard because it included the word "sucks." Well, we have ruined his 6 year old daughter's life, from the trauma of seeing that billboard. This is New York City after all, she can't have seen anything more traumatic in the last 6 years than this billboard, could she? (

So he called us to complain. We told him to get a life. He told us we will "feel the full weight of Berkshire Hathaway." He then called the Mayor of New Rochelle, who called Clear Channel. Clear Channel then violated our contract and painted over the billboard.

We are interested in your opinion if you can find the time to visit: www.msco.com/blog/mark-stevens-vs-warren-buffet

Thanks,
Chris Kieff, Editor Unconventional Thinking

As further clarification, did ValleyWag ever entertain the possibility that a fake blog might have fake lawyers shutting them down?

Come on - "Fake Steve" is satire and therefore protected speech. Even Apple isn't stupid enough to try and shut them down. Maybe, just maybe, "Fake Steve" is shutting down of it's own accord and simply making up the "unspecified legal threats"?

I expected more from ValleyWag than to simply repeat what everyone else says.
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Shawn King
Host/Executive Producer
Your Mac Life
http://www.yourmaclife.com

Nick dePlume and His Steveness to share the same cell after their separate legal issues come to rest? Anyone? Anyone?

It's as protected as the fake George W. Bush. Even the real Bush laughs at him.

To the boys in Cupertino, lighten up. Your legal team has been working overtime on cases they probably can't win.

Actually, Apple's problem is that everything works great when you live in the Apple world, but once you try to use a 3rd party product, Apple doesn't play well with others. As a company, Apple doesn't play well with others, either. They out-Microsoft Microsoft, only Microsoft has a big enough user base that they answer to somebody.

Hi, there is no silencing of anything, Fake Steve is still going strong and he needs sponsors. Maybe you can help? ;-)

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/