Battlebots Battles It Out: TV Show Versus IRC

Ender, Duke_of_URL writes: "Battlebots the TV show, has joined the ranks of Corporate bad-guys buy attempting to force out Battlebots.org, an IRC site that had registered their domain before Battlebots even filed for a trademark. As most of you know, in any dispute over domains it's the money that wins."

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Another small piece...

[Xenopax]

Every time a site like this is crushed by corporaet power, we see a small part of what was great about the internet disappear. Sure the IRC is filled with childish actions, and bots just add to the childishness. But those children are geeks using tools written by geeks on a network developed by geeks, and now... what was my point... oh yeah, and now some money grubbing corporation has stolen a small part of our childish geek actions in the name of "trademark". Some day we will look at the internet, remember what it was, and wonder why the only thing left is the Web with all of its redundant pop-up adds for cameras that open new adds for cameras when you close them. Yes, someday corporate stupidity and greed will leave us with nothing but constant advertisement on the internet and we will try to fight, but we will have no place to put our bots to talk to non-existant IRC servers to constantly publish "M1cR050f7 5uX" every 1.5 seconds on our favorite channel there by crippling our ability to do anything.

Who cares

[JAVAC THE GREAT]

Battlebots is, frankly, a crappy show and nobody watches it. This sham of a corporation will be out of business by next week anyways.