Stile Project is a

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founded by a writer and webmaster known by the pseudonym Jay Stile. Stile started the site when he was in high school, and he ran it for 12 years under the alias Jay Stile. Stile Project grew into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, collectively called ''stileNET''. On December 2, 2010, Stile announced that he had sold Stile Project. According to Stile, after selling the website, he went on to study computer science and received his postgraduate academic degree in 2013.

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'' referred to Stileproject.com as a "

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" in a 2001 article. The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any

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or depravity that could be digitized." 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," its content was criticized for its shock value. Particularly, a video showing a

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villager killing, cooking, and eating a cat was highly publicized and denounced by

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,Kornblum, Janet (August 30, 2001)
"Gag turns into rent for laid-off designer"
. (Item 2) ''Techbrief'';

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. Retrieved 2010-07-27. who sought a federal investigation, which did not occur. Stile reportedly faked his own suicide live on webcam in 1999, and he confirmed the

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in 2012.

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and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images". As the site evolved, surviving purported

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troubles, a major hacking incident Links to the hack & J. Stile's rant. and by 2004 purportedly " otgrossing out teenagers anymore," the Stile Project's content grew increasingly pornographic.

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Stile Project won

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s in 2000 for ''Weird'' site and ''People's Voice'' winner.

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* Stile is a former member of the underground art scene groups

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and

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. His specialty was designing

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logos for art group projects and bulletin board systems in the early 1990s. ''Viewer discretion advised.'' * In 2006, Canadian poet

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cited Stile Project (December 2004) as a stanza in his poetry collection ''Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method''.

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