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See 2600's battle with Verizon over verizonreallysucks.com:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36210,00.html
-Declan
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Ford v. 2600
posted by vergil on Tuesday April 24, @10:05AM
2600 Enterprises, ever willing to test the legal boundaries of
cyberspace, has earned yet another lawsuit - this time from the Ford
Motor Corporation. A Nando Times article reveals that the Blue Oval
has recently filed a trademark infringement suit against 2600
concerning a domain name that contains the name of competitor General
Motors, an obscenity and redirects to Ford's front page. "According to
the suit, which seeks unspecified damages, an Internet user searching
for a strident, vulgar criticism of GM might type in or stumble upon
the questioned domain name, then be 'catapulted' to Ford's official
Web site."
This is the latest chapter of an ongoing feud between Detroit
automakers and the Middle Island, New York based publisher of the
hacker quarterly.
On October 11, 2000, 2600 received a trademark infringement letter
from a General Motors attorney over 2600's registration of
"fuckgeneralmotors.com". A subsequent article appearing in 2600's news
archive characterized GM's initial legal threat as "an issue of speech
and we need to send a message that free speech is something we just
cannot back down on." Interestingly, the 2600 writeup offered to put
the offending domain name to good use by donating it to a website
featuring legitimate criticism of General Motors. "If you have such a
site or plan on setting one up ... we'll arrange to have
fuckgeneralmotors.com point to it. The same holds true for any of the
other corporations that we have 'critical' domains for." Guess nobody
took them up on their offer.
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