Too many dead brain cells......Steven Tyler tries to sue anonymous bloggers

[Wheezer]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...ue-anonymous-bloggers/

Celebrities get impersonated on the web. They?re famous ? everyone is anonymous ? it happens. Most celebrities just ignore it; but some get pissed off. Kanye West got mad as hell about Twitter users pretending to be him last week. This week it?s Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler who is up in arms ? to the point of actually taking anonymous bloggers to court.

Tyler attempted to sue a group of bloggers that he says were impersonating him, sharing private facts, making false statements even using his likeness on the web, NBC Los Angeles reports. The only problem? The whole ?anonymous? thing. Seeing as no one really knows who these bloggers are, they naturally didn?t bother showing up to court. Hell, I?m quite certain they didn?t even know they were supposed to be in court. So the judge dismissed the case.

Tyler is apparently most upset about these anonymous bloggers posting some comments about his mother who passed away last year. I wasn?t able to find those, but I did find a robust web community around ?Fake Steven Tyler.? There?s a popular one in the Rock Band Forums, a group on Facebook (also based around his Rock Band avatar), there?s even a Wikipedia page and an odd YouTube video (embedded below).

Twitter took down the fake Kanye West accounts at his request, but it?s hard to see what Tyler or a court could do in this case. A good first step would be to figure out who you?re actually suing though.

dumb ass.

 

[compuwiz1]

He's got a good case. I think I'm gonna help him do IP traces.

 

[TehMac]

:laugh:

Some people have so much arrogance.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
He's got a good case. I think I'm gonna help him do IP traces.

It won't work, those bloggers are behind seven proxies and they all have Norton so you can't hack or nothing!

 

[Jeff7]

Better than trying to sue Anonymous, with a capital A. I doubt he'd survive to tell the tale.

 

[Aluvus]

You're only anonymous until a court, your blogging service, or your ISP says otherwise...

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
He's got a good case. I think I'm gonna help him do IP traces.

It won't work, those bloggers are behind seven proxies and they all have Norton so you can't hack or nothing!

It's OK man, he's taken Computer Science III!

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

it is not uncommon to file suit against unknown "John Does" in order to subpoena information in order to obtain identities.

 

[Newbian]

I wonder how fast 4chan will go down...

 

[moshquerade]

Steven Tyler needs to get off the internet

 

[mugs]

He can get a subpoena to get the information he needs to find out who is impersonating him.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
it is not uncommon to file suit against unknown "John Does" in order to subpoena information in order to obtain identities.

QFT...then offer up a nice bit of cash to get them to call you with something off the record

 

[UberNeuman]

All the bloggers want to do is walk his way, talk his way....

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Steven Tyler needs to get off the internet

lol if you were him you'd have already been crying to some mod out on cyberspace.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Steven Tyler needs to get off the internet

lol if you were him you'd have already been crying to some mod out on cyberspace.

go flamebait somewhere else. preferably on a board far far away.

 

[alkemyst]

that was no bait...just stating facts.