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Without public pressure, none of these cases will be resolved except in court--if the defendants can muster the financial and psychological strength to keep their identities alive. And that's a very big if.
HMO Health Net attacks HealthNet.org Leonardo Finance attacks Leonardo magazine Mattel attacks Matt Lavallee (Matt L.) The parents of Jean-Michel Basquiat destroy a site about their son CBS News attacks Evolution Control Committee Volkswagen (of slave-labor fame) destroys ISP VW.net Mattel makes some crazy pseudo-random threats
Feb. 8: Autodesk withdraws threat!
Reel.com attacks ReelUniverse.com LA City Attorney attacks LAPD.org Wall Street Journal attacks Small Street Journal
ToysRUs attacks Roadkills-R-Us Ford Motor Co. attacks BlueOvalNews.com More links here and here. See also The Domain Name Rights Coalition The Domain Defense Advocate undertakes coordinated letter-writing campaigns to help defend threatened domains--such as theirs was in 1998, by Colgate-Palmolive. Lawyers: of course these cases are all flimsy and hardly based on law, but see this case and this one too for possible precedent. See also this article about an attempt to make linking to "illegal" sites illegal. And another in the "hunh?" category: at least one corporation has gone after an individual for naming a directory with the corporation's trademarked name.... Wait! That's not all! Now someone has been forced to rename a gif! See also these links for information about SLAPP suits, another kind of flimsy case. And watch out for ICANN's new rules.... |
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