You know you've hit it big when you are rumoured to be dead.

Gotye is the latest celebrity (joined by the likes of everyone from Robin Williams to Chad Kroeger) to be the subject of this age old hoax. In his case, it was apparently suicide by gunshot wound to the head.

He took to twitter and quashed the rumour fairly quickly, but it made me wonder:

Are the people who start the celebrity death hoaxes the same people who design computer viruses?

Hmmmm.