{"id":11091,"date":"2015-04-28T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:39:34","slug":"amazon-sues-fake-review-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/amazon-sues-fake-review-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Sues Fake Review Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/04\/09\/amazon-drops-the-hammer-on-website-that-sells-5-star-reviews\/\">Joe Mullin<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/15\/04\/10\/0253229\/amazon-sues-to-block-fake-reviews\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/04\/09\/amazon-drops-the-hammer-on-website-that-sells-5-star-reviews\/\"><p>The giant of online retail has filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Amazon.v.Gentile.COMPLAINT.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)<\/a> in King County Superior Court against Jay Gentile, a California man who Amazon says created websites offering to sell verified Amazon reviews for between $19 and $22 per review. The websites sell varying packages of reviews, allowing users to buy as few as three reviews and as many as 100.<\/p><p>The offerings include &ldquo;drip-feed delivery&rdquo; and a &ldquo;100 percent stick guarantee&rdquo; for reviews, promising to replace any that Amazon deleted or filtered out.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Mullin (via Slashdot): The giant of online retail has filed a lawsuit (PDF) in King County Superior Court against Jay Gentile, a California man who Amazon says created websites offering to sell verified Amazon reviews for between $19 and $22 per review. The websites sell varying packages of reviews, allowing users to buy as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,41,96],"class_list":["post-11091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-lawsuit","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11111,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}