You have to love the lack of tech and Web knowledge shown in the modern day judicial system (I honestly don’t have a clue as to why some of these questions needed to be asked).
Q: And the term “rickroll” you said it tries to make people go to a site where they think it is going to be one thing, but it is a video of Rick Astley, is that right?
A: Yes.
Q: He was some kind of singer?
A: Yes.
Q: It’s a joke?
A: Yes.
Full court document over at Smoking Gun.
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Thank you for blogging about this. This is such an interesting topic. Something else that’s related to internet slang that I saw on YouTube today was this video at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qljbvTqScgY. You should also check out a related blog post on taking advantage of using internet slang. Here’s the link: http://www.joshrimer.com/internet-slang-matters/.