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Yahoo Personals has settled with one Robert Anthony over a date-baiting case from last fall. Yahoo has avoided wasting an enormous amount of time by settling, which means they paid the guy off. I don’t know much about the issue but it sounds like the guy thought he was dating a real person when in [...]

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Recently I came across LawyersandSettlements.com, which has a page dedicated to a Match.com class action lawsuit and one for It’s Just Lunch, dated 2005 and December, 2006, respectively. The site looks like it’s prospecting, and something doesn’t feel right about it. Are there other sites out there like this?

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I saw this in my newsreader but Markus beat me to it:
 A lawsuit has been filed against TrueBeginnings, LLC, the owner and operator of the True.com online dating website…The complaint alleges that True.com charges its customers monthly service fees in excess of $50 per month, and that True.com charges its customers’ credit card or bank [...]

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Law enforcement officials are charging that the online social network MySpace has discovered thousands of known sex offenders using its service, but has failed to act on the information. So much for the Sentinel Sentry sex offender database.
Hemanshu Nigam, the chief security officer of MySpace, supports legislation requiring convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail [...]

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Is this for real? The National Organization of Short Statured Adults?
The National Organization Of Short Statured Adults is in receipt of numerous complaints regarding the internet based website EHARMONY.COM, 300 N. Lake Avenue Ste, 1111 Pasadena, CA 91101 USA. The complaints allege that the website is intentionally denying website membership to short statured men. Suspicions [...]

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Fresh from the comments, Brandon at Net Choice says:
Today the Illinois legislature did what the Florida legislature wouldn’t do – crush a bad online dating bill in committee.
I had a premonition that things would go well in Springfield. Hey, it’s the Land of Lincoln and Illinois is the state where I was born!
But superstitions [...]

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Mashable thinks another social networking patent has been awarded to Friendster. Supposedly the patent, filed on August 25th 2006, was issued on March 6th 2007. Friendster already has several social networking patents.

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A few months ago Jessica Simpson was embarrassed when she mistakenly hired a professional gigolo from a dating site.
eHarmony: rock n’ Roller’s need not apply. News outlets are reporting that rock star Courtney Love was recently devastated when she failed the eHarmony personality test.
In a typo-laden message on her official website, Moonwashedrose.com, she [...]

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Stephen Cohen, who stole Sex.com from Match.com founder Gary Kremen and whose whereabouts are still unknown — can now add “gangland murder attemptâ€? to his life story.
Who doesn’t like a story that includes a:
Convicted felon, a private investigator with a Stanford MBA, a Match.com startup dot-commer (now former) tweaker, a daughter caught smuggling 202 pounds [...]

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