To me, fakes would be a lot easier to pick out if it weren't for the other people being sucked into thinking its real. I'm a bit of a follower more than a leader, so if I see that MOST people are doing something, I tend to think "Oh, then 500 people can't be that stupid." I mean, the VAMPS American Street Team MySpace looks just as official (actually more so in my opinion, lmao) as the official VAMPS MySpace, but everyone knows it's operated by fans, especially since comments usually are targeted towards H.P. as opposed to the various comments directed at the band like "OMG HYDE I LUV U!" or on other occasions, "HYDE GO BAK 2 LARUKU BCUZ I LIEK LARUKU & VAMPS SUX" like on that fake VAMPS FaceBook. (Granted, with the latter, I would love some more L'Arc work very much as well, but I can't stand it when people tend to think that HYDE "left" L'Arc or that any single member is responsible for them temporarily ceasing production, especially when they feel the need to bring down VAMPS, S.O.A.P. Ken solo, etc., artists and bands completely unrelated to L'Arc aside from the existence of one or more L'Arc member themselves, to convey their point)

To be honest, though, I don't think that the creators of these fake sites are malicious at all, but just attention seekers. I mean, why do you think people continue to upload VAMPS PV's and video diaries even after they've all been uploaded on the VAMPROSE Official YouTube Channel? Simply, desperation to obtain more subscribers, and the sad part is that it works. For some crazy reason, people seem to prefer to watch these things illegally and in lower quality over legally and with good picture quality. The same applies to everyone who continues to upload the VAMPS New York show that they downloaded from the same original uploader- because it gets them more subscribers. So the people who make VAMPS MySpace pages and FaceBook pages just want a lot of people to pay attention to them, nothing more. However, that's not to say that I'd rule out mamikochan's statements presenting the possibility of the creator being diluted or perverted, but I think that simple attention seeking is more likely. This can usually spawn from rejection of his or her own personal projects taken to the heart or lack of friends in the real world.

To be fair, I think some of these people intended to put a disclaimer saying that the page was fan-operated. In fact, the HYDE Facebook I ended up favoriting did, in fact, have a disclaimer that says it was not official, but ran by a fan. Sometimes people just forget.

And actually, I -do- think there's a law against impersonating other people, rather celebrities or not as it is a form of identity theft. However, if no loss or gain occurs on either side, the most that could happen is that they get their account deleted.