$1,000,000 home page now worth $750,000

Apparently the fool who purchased the last few pixels (via auction on eBay, no less!) on the so-called "Million Dollar Homepage" is suing the owner of the website (a poor fool) for breach of contract, because some evil hackers executed a DOS (denial-of-service) attack against the $1MHP and took the site offline for about a week. The hackers were blackmailing the website owner and took the site down in retaliation (but that's another story, for another time).

What's wrong with this situation? I can think of serveral things:

1. Since the owner of the website isn't an ISP, etc., writing any kind of performance guarantees into a contract with a pixel-holder, without first having the exact same kind of performance guarantees from the ISP is just stupid. It's why you should hire a good attorney before you consort with assholes.
2. Consorting with assholes. But it's inevitable. The world is run by money-grubbing pricks (excuse the strong language, but if it fits ...) who will sue your socks off at the drop of a hat. Or an Internet connection, as the case may be.
   
3. Thinking you could actually make a million with something as cheesy as the $1MHP. I hope the guy escrowed some of the funds for just this type of occurrance.
   
4. Thinking that you, as a pixel-holder on the $1MHP, are going really to get something of demonstrable value out of it. C'mon, get real. It's gonna only be popular and trafficked for something like ... 15 minutes, which may be the true source of the pixel-holder's beef: he knows he's only going to get value while the $1MHP is web-hot. The clock is ticking, and he ain't gettin' no traffic.
5. Just the very idea that this is something to be taken seriously. Seriously, this rates somewhere between the pets.com sock puppet and Jessica Simpson's official home page. No offense to the puppet, either. He has someone's hand up his ass.
   

The man that's suing the $1MHP needs to be careful. If he pushes too hard, the whole thing simply collapses and disappears. No hits, no value. If he's really displeased, he should simply ask for his money back and go buy his advertising elsewhere. If I were part of the many other pixel-space holders, I would be urging the latest member of the club to chill out, relax, and just let the suit drop. They have the publicity (viz: the new article), so now they should all just go along for the ride.

It will all be over, soon enough.