So, there is a downside to these domains and phonetically same sounding names. (albeit, with banking this problem is ofcourse far bigger... i recon that.., but still)
I don't put Spifftire in the same category as those malicious sites, though, because unlike those sites, Spifftire can't do any harm. It's obviously designed as a read-only, non-interactive site. So whether you're an experienced VI-Controller who gets every nuance of humor, or a newbie trying to figure out how to buy the libraries, nothing's going to hurt you.
If someone forwards this website to a newbie, without telling the satire part... it can lead to negative reactions.. Don't say this won't happen, because it will. Not everybody is friendly you know. Not even here. (it's naive to think there is friendly people only on vi-c, e.g.)
That's what makes it extra amusing. Case in point:
About 15 years ago, I created a
CD single by a fictitious husband & wife duo that satirized how husband & wife country duos using auto-accompaniment keyboards infiltrated the polka circuit. I mailed the CDs all over the country to prominent bandleaders, radio stations/producers and DJs. I went so far as to mail them out from Dubuque, Iowa to mask the project's Milwaukee origin.
Everyone knew it was a joke (and many outright suspected me even though I denied it) but one bandleader did not take it as a joke. He wrote a letter detailing his disappointment. He addressed it to their fictitious name and mailed it to their fictitious address in the fictitious city of Rockfield Heights, Illinois. Naturally it bounced back as undeliverable.
What makes this funny is that at the time, he worked for the Post Office! And what makes it funnier is how he found out it was me. Later that year he was in my studio recording an album. While I was upstairs taking a quick break, he poked around inside the booth and found the lyric sheet for that song that I accidentally left there. I came downstairs, and he goes..."Busted!" But then we both enjoyed a good laugh over the whole thing.
Not everyone will get or appreciate the humor. That's expected. But that's their problem, not the satirist's. If anything, their serious reaction will just amplify the humor for everyone else.