# My friend made Korea lose 3 Billion Dollars **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970 "2004-10-25T01:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/1 "2004-10-25T01:34:38Z")
I used to have this friend a year or so ago that was really into computers. He hosted and created this site [CG-Rom.com](http://CG-Rom.com). We had a sort of falling out and didn’t talk for a little while, and once he began to really get into drugs we didn’t talk at all. Our ages are around 16 right now, and haven’t really talked since we were 13 or 14. Well, I just found out that he hosted this crank site that was reported as real. Full story [here.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2916135.stm) I choose not to name names, and I also choose not to get into the legal issuses but I’ll just post what has already been posted online. Another story [here.](http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2003/04/creative_pranks.php) Freakin’ surreal. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/2 "2004-10-25T03:41:28Z")
Hope he has a good lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![theckhd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@theckhd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theckhd)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/3 "2004-10-25T03:58:44Z")
Is there anything actually _illegal_ about it? I mean, it’s a spoof of cnn’s website, so i would imagine it gets some protection by being a parody. I’m not sure how this is that much different than The Onion, with the notable exception that it’s masquerading as a real media outlet. My first guess would be that the blame is at the feet of the TV station that aired it without fact-checking. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/4 "2004-10-25T09:33:09Z")
> [@theckhd](#): > > Is there anything actually _illegal_ about it? Not unless he was shorting stock at the same time! ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/5 "2004-10-25T09:41:56Z")
> [@Bill H.](#): > > Hope he has a good lawyer. Hang on…Bill H… in Silicon Valley? The man himself? A Doper? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/6 "2004-10-25T11:04:46Z")
Well, it happened a year ago and I just found out. He did get into trouble with CNN for using their logo and stuff but nothing bad came out of it. Course, that is all I know, so I really have no idea what happened specifically. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/7 "2004-10-25T14:03:30Z")
Is now a good time to buy stock in the Korea market? ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-made-korea-lose-3-billion-dollars/270970/8 "2004-10-25T14:05:44Z")
…oh damn that’s an old story.