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Controversial Shock Site for Sale
By Leander Kahney

   
Known for its outrageous content, the StileProject has sparked angry debate over a video showing a kitten being killed and cooked.  
 
Known for its outrageous content, the StileProject has sparked angry debate over a video showing a kitten being killed and cooked.
10:25 a.m. Sep. 5, 2001 PDT
The controversial StileProject website is for sale.

The site is being auctioned on eBay.

So far, it has attracted bids of about $70,000 from nearly 50 potential buyers. The reserve -- a minimum amount for the sale to proceed -- has not yet been met.

The StileProject site is a well-known shock site that traffics in a regular diet of pornographic, obscene and extreme content.


    


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The site has been mired in controversy since the owner, Jonathan Biderman, better known as Stile, posted a graphic video of a kitten being killed and prepared for a meal. The video sparked widespread outrage.

Stile said he can no longer deal with the controversy caused by the video.

"I quit," he said in an e-mail. "I can't take it anymore. Thanks to you and the media my life has been ruined... I'm getting death threats 24/7 on the phone and and can't run the site anymore, it's not worth dying over."

According to Stile, the site has been attracting more than 100,000 visitors a day since the video was posted two weeks ago.

The site won a Webby award last year in two categories: Weirdest Site and People's Choice.

The site is advertised on eBay as "an internationally recognized brand and a household name."

However, the proposed sale could be another in a long string of attention-seeking stunts.

Last year, Stile threatened to quit because of the site's skyrocketing bills.


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