Книга: Internet Hoaxes: Toothing, Beck V. Eiland-Hall, Google's Hoaxes, Essjay Controversy, Lonelygirl15, Wikipedia Biography Controversy, John Titor

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Toothing, Beck V. Eiland-Hall, Google's Hoaxes, Essjay Controversy, Lonelygirl15, Wikipedia Biography Controversy, John Titor, Boilerplate, Polybius, U.s. Presidential Iq Hoax, Mars Hoax, Henryk Batuta Hoax, World Jump Day, Virgle, Progesterex, the Franklin Prophecy, Holocaust Teaching Controversy of 2007, E-Mail Spoofing, Helicopter Shark, Pimps at Sea, Hellenic Quest, Lustfaust, Masal Bugduv, Dead Fairy Hoax, Cough Cpr, Goojje, Lumber Cartel, Gorgeous Guy, Our First Time, Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, Manbeef, Emmet, Computer Tan Hoax, Izmo Guglich Affair, Document 12-571-3570, Liebermann Inc., Nintendo On, Bonsai Kitten, Cambodian Midget Fighting League, Kaycee Nicole, Hanxin, Project Dawnstar, Pomegranate, Iraqi Block Cipher, Spunkball, Website Spoofing, Lovelump, Glock 3, Andrew Carlssin, Lucian Yahoo Dragoman, S-1 Block Cipher, Chaos Cloud. Excerpt: Beck v. Eiland-Hall is a case filed before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2009 by political commentator Glenn Beck, concerning the satirical website 'GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990'. The site was created by Isaac Eiland-Hall as a parody of Beck's style of commentary. The site name came from Internet discussions which were based on a joke originally used by comedian Gilbert Gottfried at a 2008 comedy roast of Bob Saget, where Gottfried jokingly implored listeners to disregard the (non-existent) rumor that his fellow comedian raped and murdered a girl in 1990. Internet posters contrasted the meme with Beck's style of arguing, by requesting Beck 'prove that he didn't' commit the act in question. Eiland-Hall created a website about it, which launched on September 1, 2009, and had 120,000 page loads within its first 24 hours. Attorneys representing Glenn Beck's media company Mercury Radio...