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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 ****** http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/24/162223&mode=thread 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. ### ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------