O.J. Web Warfare

ByABC News
November 17, 2006, 3:04 PM

Nov. 17, 2006— -- The family of Ronald Goldman has launched a Web site that lists the addresses and phone numbers of Fox Broadcasting, publisher Harper Collins and Judith Regan's imprint, ReganBooks, and urges Net surfers to boycott the corporations for giving O.J. Simpson a platform for his "fictional'' book, "If I Did It" -- a hypothetical account of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Goldman.

The new site, www.Dontpayoj.com says that Simpson "is a vicious killer who wants to glorify and benefit from his crimes," and adds, "If we are to live in a remotely just society, a line of decency must be drawn."

The site asks viewers to sign an online petition "and let it be known that you do not, and will not, support any entity that assists and encourages a murderer to profit from his crimes."

The Web site is the latest salvo in an increasingly postmodern battle between big media and the families of the Brentwood murder victims.

Late Thursday night, in a startling turn of events, publisher Judith Regan switched sides, acknowledging in a lengthy press release that she gave Simpson a book deal and a network interview in the hopes of wringing a confession out of him.

She said that as a battered woman herself, "Nicole and Ron were in my heart'' during her talk with Simpson, which airs later this month.

Kim Goldman told ABC News' Law & Justice Unit that the site was her family's best hope of stopping Fox from broadcasting the two-part interview with Simpson.

"It's the power of the Internet,'' she said. "This is the age that we live in, and this is the quickest and most effective way to garner support in a short period of time." Goldman said one of the attorneys who works with the family came up with the idea.

Goldman said she was surprised at how quickly the Web site seems to have taken off.

"My old boyfriend signed the [online] petition. How the heck did he find out about it?"

The new site -- whose petition list jumped from 172 to 1,241 in the course of several hours Friday morning --