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Copycat dotcom hit by hackers

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A Hong Kong imitator of dotcom deathwatch Web site F***edcompany.com has drawn threats and a series of hacking attacks from fans of the United States-based forum.
Since its launch at the beginning of May, F***edcompanyasia.com has had pornography posted in chat rooms, received racist messages accusing the creator of being a 'thieving Oriental' and weathered attempts to flood its system with automatically generated posts.

But John Devon, the owner of F***edcompanyasia, said he was not going to back down.

'I don't really care. I have saved a lot of the stuff they posted and put it on the site because I think they are funny,' he said via an e-mail interview.

Mr Devon, who until recently worked for a technology recruitment company, acknowledged his site was modelled closely after the original, and that he had hoped to create some controversy with the near-identical design and concept. If he broke any copyright regulations, he did not seem to care.

'What are they going to do, file a lawsuit in Hong Kong from the US? If they take the domain away it cost me US$70. Whoopi-doo,' he said.

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