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UTube.com vs. YouTube.comPosted on Nov 6, 2006
In what may be the most brazenly frivolous lawsuit of all time, an Ohio pipe company whose website, utube.com, has been crippled by Web surfers looking for YouTube.com, is suing for damages, and is demanding that YouTube cede its domain name to the pipe company.
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By A_B, November 6, 2006 at 3:40 pm #
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“In what may be the most brazenly frivolous lawsuit of all time...”
How can you say that? Did you even read the complaint?
What if Digg.com decided to put up TruthDigg.com and the traffic crushed your servers so you couldn’t keep this site up? Would you just brush it off as your tough luck, or would you think, “WTF? We were here first. They picked a name that is similar to ours and now we can’t do anything.”
What if people that Truthdig.com was jumping on the Truthdigg.com bandwagon and called you all sorts of names and sent you all sorts of nasty emails? What if you got a bad reputation because you were erroneously thought to be the junior user?
What if Digg.com’s new site was a porn site? Through massive publicity, all of a sudden, Truthdig.com, the senior user, becomes associated with pornography.
Wouldn’t Truthdig.com object? Wouldn’t you guys say, “wait a minute. We were here first, and while we are in different areas, you guys can’t take a confusingly similar name.” Etc.
I don’t think you can call a company who has had their website up since 1996, and now have a hard time keeping it up, “frivolous” for filing a lawsuit to protect their business.
Report thisBy harald hardrada, November 6, 2006 at 2:15 pm #
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americans hold in contempt any business that produces goods
show them a business that produces frivolity of passing fame & they celebrate
both political parties are doing all they can to squeeze out small business & the middle class—republicans grant favors to large corporations & to the wealthy while democrats grant favors to special interest groups—either way the ends are the same: shaft the folks who create goods-producing jobs
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