Editing Stile Project (section)

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''[[The Register]]'' referred to Stileproject.com as a "[[shock site]]" in a 2001 article.<ref name="RegCat">{{cite web |author=McCarthy, Kieren |date=August 30, 2001 |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/30/cat_eating_video_causes_mayhem/ |title=Cat eating video causes mayhem |work=[[The Register]] |access-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603224859/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/30/cat_eating_video_causes_mayhem/ |archive-date=2010-06-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any [[taboo]] or depravity that could be digitized."<ref name="LVW">{{cite news |author=Beato, Greg |date=June 18, 2009 |title=Porn's highs and lows |url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jun/18/porns-highs-and-lows/ |newspaper=Las Vegas Weekly |access-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325212322/http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jun/18/porns-highs-and-lows/ |archive-date=2010-03-25 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early 2000s, as "the Web's leading repository of crude filth – probably the most reliable source of tastelessness in the history of the Internet,"<ref name="Mirror">{{cite web |author=Citrome, Michael |date=February 10, 2000 |url= http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/022400/worthy.html  |title=Something for everyone |work=Networthy |publisher=[[Montreal Mirror]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030912063940/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/022400/worthy.html |archive-date=2003-09-12 |access-date=2013-03-17}}</ref> its content was criticized for its shock value. One example was a video showing a [[Koreans|Korean]] villager killing, cooking, and eating a cat was highly publicized and denounced by [[PETA]],<ref name="RegCat"/><ref name="USAToday">Kornblum, Janet (August 30, 2001). [https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-30-ebrief.htm "Gag turns into rent for laid-off designer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626001137/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-30-ebrief.htm |date=2010-06-26 }}. (Item 2) ''Techbrief''; [[USA Today]]. Retrieved 2010-07-27.</ref> who sought a federal investigation, which did not occur.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rowe |first=Chip |date=October 2002 |title=Free Speech or Not Free Speech: You Be the Judge Part 2 (Item 10) |work=ChipRowe.com |publisher=originally Playboy.com |volume=49 |issue=10 |url=http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/free-speech-quiz-two.html <!--authorized republication from Playboy --> |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017050103/http://chiprowe.com/articles/free-speech-quiz-two.html |archive-date=2010-10-17 }}</ref> Stile reportedly faked his own suicide live on webcam in 1999,<ref name="RegHack"/> and he confirmed the [[hoax]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web | author=Stile, J. |title=Webcam stunt | date=January 28, 2012 | url=http://www.stilemedia.com/post/16668554153/i-faked-my-own-suicide-back-on-webcam-in-1999-i}}{{dead link|date=January 2015}}</ref>

[[Open Source software|Open-source software]]  and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Anti-capitalism Reader | editor=Schalit, Joel |title=Peace, Love, Linux | author=Newitz, Annalee | year=2002 |page=244 |publisher=Akashic Books | isbn=1-888451-33-5
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GlSVoiOdzwC&dq=%22stile+project%22&pg=PA244}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author=Stile, J. |url=http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090707080836/http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 7, 2009 |date = May 10, 2001 | title=Linux Loving Sluts |work=stileproject.com |access-date=2010-07-05}}</ref>  As the site evolved, it survived what Stile reported was [[webhost]] troubles,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stileproject.com/ |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5ujZW70D3?url=http://www.stileproject.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2010 |title=Homepage |publisher=Stile Project |author=Stile, J. |date=April 5, 2001 |access-date=2010-07-27 }}</ref> and a major hacking incident.<ref name="RegHack">{{cite web |title=Infamous porn site gets a hacker makeover |author=Leyden, John |date=July 24, 2001  |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/24/infamous_porn_site_gets |website=[[The Register]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040827062357/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/24/infamous_porn_site_gets/ |archive-date=2004-08-27 }} Links to the hack & J. Stile's rant.</ref><ref name="V3">{{cite web |author=Middleton, James |url=http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1979962/porn-site-hacked-rabbit <!--|oldurl=http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2115694/porn-site-hacked-rabbit--> |title=Porn site hacked by rabbit |publisher=V3.co.uk |date=July 25, 2001 |access-date=2009-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330015944/http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1979962/porn-site-hacked-rabbit |archive-date=2012-03-30 |url-status=live}}{{registration required}}</ref> By 2004 AlterNet wrote that it and other similar shock sites "aren't grossing out teenagers anymore."<ref>{{cite web|author=Newitz, Annalee|author-link=Annalee Newitz|date=November 3, 2004|title=The Great Unknown|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/20396/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318182809/http://www.alternet.org/story/20396|archive-date=2011-03-18|access-date=2010-07-05|publisher=Alter Net}}</ref>