Posted by
timothy
on from the good-taste-is-another-department dept.
corran__horn writes: "2600 Victory in the ford case has been appealed by Ford. Looks like the guys at 2600 have some fun ahead. This site has some background to the problem."
Ford and Blue Oval News
by
L-Train8
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Ford has a history of bullying websites around. Their long running problems with Blue Oval News is a perfect example.
The history is here, but basically, Blue Oval News published internal Ford documents that talked about performance problems in the '99 Mustang Cobra. Basically, Ford was advertising better performance than the Mustang delivered. Ford sued to have the documents removed from the website, saying that the documents were trade secrets and were copyrighted. Ford convinced BON's ISP that BON was violating a court order by publishing the documents (despite the fact that the court case had not convened and no orders had been issued), and got the site shut down for a few days. Eventually, Blue Oval News won the case.
If Ford is willing to fight so hard to keep actual facts from being published, I guess it's not surprising that they would want to regulate the disemination of unflattering opinions as well.
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Ford has a history of bullying websites around. Their long running problems with Blue Oval News is a perfect example.
The history is here, but basically, Blue Oval News published internal Ford documents that talked about performance problems in the '99 Mustang Cobra. Basically, Ford was advertising better performance than the Mustang delivered. Ford sued to have the documents removed from the website, saying that the documents were trade secrets and were copyrighted. Ford convinced BON's ISP that BON was violating a court order by publishing the documents (despite the fact that the court case had not convened and no orders had been issued), and got the site shut down for a few days. Eventually, Blue Oval News won the case.
If Ford is willing to fight so hard to keep actual facts from being published, I guess it's not surprising that they would want to regulate the disemination of unflattering opinions as well.
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