[Volokh] David Post: Um, Talk About Trackbacks!

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Posted by David Post:
Um, Talk About Trackbacks!
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1242831292


   Take a look at [1]this webpage, purporting to report on a posting of
   mine here on the VC. Here's how it starts:

     David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy writes: Codeâs a exceptionally
     momentous promulgate, in my purpose (and, I about, objectively
     speaking, in the purpose of melodious much actually interested in
     reasoning encompassing law and balance on the Net). Lessig got a
     kismet of things honourable in Code; most fundamentally, the
     inclination encompassing which much of the promulgate is organized
     - that âcode is lawâ on the extensive network - is a exceptionally
     nonsensical bounteousness a certain, and still a downright a
     certain, and it has been utter to a queer blow the whistle on of
     exceptionally advantageous reasoning in the gift. Code got some
     things out of line, too - most fundamentally, when Lessig argued
     that it is abortive (and maybe still dangerous) to talk
     encompassing cyberspaceâs ânature.â

   [The actual original posting is [2]here] It's pretty bizarre -- as
   best I can figure it, somebody took my original posting and ran it
   through some sort of nonsense-generator to produce the text shown
   there -- it's English, and it bears some relationship to my original
   posting, but it makes absolutely no sense. [along the lines of Noam
   Chomsky's famous sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously,"
   designed to illustrate sentences that can be perfect grammatically but
   semantically nonsensical]. Surprisingly enjoyable to read, actually .
   . .

   As to why someone might want to do this, I'm less clear. And inasmuch
   as this is a legal blog, one might raise the question: is there a
   cause of action here? For "false attribution" under the Lanham Act,
   perhaps? False light publicity? [No, I'm not thinking of suing, or
   even complaining about it, though it is something of a shock to see
   something like this attributed to you on the Net; I assume that anyone
   who stumbles across this would realize pretty quickly that whoever
   this "David Post" might be, he surely didn't write this . . .]

References

   1. http://tinyurl.com/otmv59
   2. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1242574821