{"id":2218,"date":"2012-05-08T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T15:38:10","slug":"ocean-marketings-christoforo-sues-former-client-for-defamation-of-character-paul-christoforokotaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/ocean-marketings-christoforo-sues-former-client-for-defamation-of-character-paul-christoforokotaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Fucking Serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure in order to prove defamation of character in court, you have to prove that you had character to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ocean Marketing&#8217;s Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character [Paul Christoforo]Kotaku<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px;\">\n<div><a title=\"Click here to read Ocean Marketing's Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character\" href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5908615\/ocean-marketings-christoforo-sues-former-client-for-defamation-of-character\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-color: #b3b3b3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;\" title=\"Click here to read Ocean Marketing's Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/17m0l71bme9vcpng\/original.png?resize=190%2C120\" alt=\"Click here to read Ocean Marketing's Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character\" width=\"190\" height=\"120\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul Christoforo, best known as the man who set off an Internet firestorm after a spat with a customer <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5871235\/controller-company-berates-customers-penny-arcade-bring-popcorn\">went public last December<\/a>, has filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for then. <a title=\"Click here to read more about Ocean Marketing's Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character [Paul Christoforo]\" href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5908615\/ocean-marketings-christoforo-sues-former-client-for-defamation-of-character\">More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H4>Related Awesome<\/H4><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How to Save the Wii U, in 3 Simple Steps\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/how-save-wii-u-3-simple-steps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to Save the Wii U, in 3 Simple Steps<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Donglegate Should Be About Common Courtesy, Not Sexism\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/donglegate-common-courtesy-sexism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Donglegate Should Be About Common Courtesy, Not Sexism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Case for Dropping the WWW From URLs in Advertising\" 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man who set off an Internet firestorm after a spat with a customer <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5871235\/controller-company-berates-customers-penny-arcade-bring-popcorn\">went public last December<\/a>, has filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for then. <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5908615\/ocean-marketings-christoforo-sues-former-client-for-defamation-of-character\" title=\"Click here to read more about Ocean Marketing&#39;s Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character [Paul Christoforo]\">More\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> <br style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?a=0nA5O-Z3770:UJyo_kt6idc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?a=0nA5O-Z3770:UJyo_kt6idc:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?a=0nA5O-Z3770:UJyo_kt6idc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?i=0nA5O-Z3770:UJyo_kt6idc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?a=0nA5O-Z3770:UJyo_kt6idc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/kotaku\/full?i=0nA5O-Z3770:UJyo_kt6idc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~4\/0nA5O-Z3770\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[82,65],"tags":[19,45,290,98],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are You Fucking Serious? - Paper Awesome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/ocean-marketings-christoforo-sues-former-client-for-defamation-of-character-paul-christoforokotaku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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