{"id":317,"date":"2008-08-14T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/celebrity-gestapo\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:31:57","slug":"celebrity-gestapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/celebrity-gestapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Gestapo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a phone call (wow, actual voice communication!) from a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/mvnforum\/mvnforum\/index\">killersites.com forum<\/a>, where he was anxious to delete his account from the system because he had used a celebrities first name as his user name. Harmless, right? No, wrong!!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he was contacted by one of this celebrities minions, where this minion-of-celeb, demanded (under threat of legal action!) that the member terminate the account! <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Yes, threats from a looser celebrity because someone was using their name as a user name on a web design related forum!! <\/p>\n<p>I changed the user name because I don&#8217;t want to stress out any member of our community here. But I have to tell you, this really pisses me off.<\/p>\n<p>.. Or better yet, I&#8217;m a minor nerd-celebrity of sorts, maybe I should go around the Web threatening to sue people who use my first name on a message board!  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s official, no one can use the name: Stefan<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a phone call (wow, actual voice communication!) from a member of the killersites.com forum, where he was anxious to delete his account from the system because he had used a celebrities first name as his user name. Harmless, right? No, wrong!! Apparently he was contacted by one of this celebrities minions, where &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}