TheOatmeal responds to a lawsuit threat and donates nearly $50,000

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on Monday June 11, 2012 @08:26PM

chimpo13 writes "FunnyJunk threatens to file a federal lawsuit against The Oatmeal unless Matthew Inman pays $20,000 in damages. Inman posts, and replies to the letter in comic form, and raised $47,000 for charities within a few hours. He also brought Indiegogo's servers to a halt."

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Both indiegogo's and oatmeals servers downish (Score:2)

by TheInternetGuy (2006682) writes:

It seems Matt gogleplusdotted both himself and indiegogo at the same time.
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  by kelarius (947816) writes:
  
  The story is #1 on reddit right now, I bet that's the main reason why those sites are down. Side note: apparently someone uploaded a copy of the comic [funnyjunk.com] to FunnyJunk. Keeping up the classiness, the admins there are currently forcing it's rating down to keep it off the front page.

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Thufir's a Harkonnen now.

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