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Steve Aoki and Parody Site in Cease and Desist Battle

10/01/2014
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(Radio.com) While DJ Steve Aoki is all about having fun (given his penchant for throwing cakes into the faces of adoring fans when he's not crowd-surfing across their heads on an inflatable raft during DJ sets), he's not laughing at Irish EDM parody site Wunderground for a series of articles his lawyers are calling "damaging to his reputation" in a stern cease and desist letter the site has made public.

For the uninitiated, Wunderground has made waves in the EDM community with posts poking fun at the scene such as "Electric Daisy Carnival Exposed as Giant Nursery for Babysitting Drugged Teens" and "Richie Hawtin Cancels Set After Mistakenly Forgetting to Wear a Black T-Shirt," going after mainstream culture and underground icons with equal comedic ferocity.

Aoki has a been a frequent target on the site, but it was a recent post that purported to sell a t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Ask Me About My S- DJ Impression" on the front with a picture of Aoki's face printed on the inside of the shirt that's revealed when it's pulled over the wearer's face that pushed the "Boneless" producer and his legal team over the edge.

In a lengthy and detailed post tagged "Real News," Wunderground editor Mikey Maguire mocks the cease and desist letter, maintaining that the shirts and the Indiegogo campaign to raise money in order to print them was an obvious joke.

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