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burning with rage, defensiveness ahoy, internet lawyers, making light, my reputation takes visa, squid brains

LITERARY AGENT SUES THE INTERNET FOR BEING MEAN TO HER. NEWS AT 11.
It all started with a list - a list of questionable literary agencies and agents. Unfortunately, someone named Barbara Bauer was on this list. This made her very, very, very, very unhappy. (So unhappy, in fact, she demanded A BILLION DOLLARS from several bloggers for her pain and suffering.) Why, oh why won't they fork over the dough? And why are they laughing? What's a poor, maligned literary agent to do? SUE WIKIPEDIA AND THE BLOGOSPHERE!, that's what. Hmmph. That'll show 'em!

Oops...DISMISSED! Wikipedia, you bastard!

(SRS BZNS ETA: I've received some additional info about the court cases that are still pending, which can be found here)

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ladyindigo
2008-07-02 04:01 pm UTC (link)

My girlfriend is currently sampling the delights of Ms. Bauer's podcast. Apparently Google is responsible for "a crisis in publishing" and the Google-bombing is being paid for BY the company Google in particular. There is a yes man on with her saying things like "the government should regulate the Internet" and "something should be done." All of this is done with the voice of Sheila Broflovski.

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	feenix 2008-07-03 09:01 am UTC (link)
	All of this is done with the voice of Sheila Broflovski. Now I have to listen to this. I'll never be able to watch South Park again without thinking of Kyle's mom suing the pants off of Wikipedia. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	silrana 2008-07-03 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	And strangely enough, I'm still waiting for my check. All of us who participated in the google-bombing had a really good laugh asking what our pay scale was supposed to be and did we have to report Google-bomber as our profession on our tax forms. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladyindigo 2008-07-03 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	Shame on them, taking time from their busy schedule making a billion dollars to discredit a small-time scam artist and then not even PAYING you for it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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