Scumbag webmaster article- real or fake?

[Bill]

I think this article, which has been making the rounds today, is probably a fake. That is, that there is no such webmaster as is the apparent subject of the article, that it is a puff piece meant to demonize webmasters and the adult industry.

After all, "Fake News" and fake articles have become more and more common recently.

What do you guys think?

If this webmaster is real, and really said and does this stuff, let's find him and rip him a new asshole.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...3909454084.xml

"Rich said he embeds holiday-related words, such as Santa Claus or Easter Bunny in his meta tag so that his site will pop up when people type those words into the search engine. Meta tags uses keywords that are embedded in Web sites so they can be indexed by Internet search engines. And though he said he has not done this, he knows others will simply misspell popular Web sites viewed by teenage and younger viewers, called mousetrapping.

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Rich said he sometimes implants spy ware that automatically dials a 900 number causing someone to incur charges up to $3.99 per minute when they click on his site. Broadband, he said, has allowed this technology to be transferable to instant messages, allowing him to send instant messages using gimmicks like telling customers they won something. This, he said, he's done only a few times.

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"We are always one step ahead and seem to be the first to use the newest technology," Rich said. Rich has also used "Jump tos," also known as redirects that automatically redirect viewers of their free material to his paid site. The redirect embeds on consumers' computers Web site links that are virtually impossible to remove.

When asked what parents can do to prevent him and others like him from exposing their children to I-porn, he replied, "Nothing, really."