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."
Read the fordreallysucks.com website, it has information on the many suits brought by ford. Apparently they have also sued a guy who runs http://www.jaguarcenter.com and http://www.jaguarenthusiastsclub.com
both sites are about the animal jaguar and both in England. The guy who ran 4fordparts.com, and 4fordtrunks.com who sells parts, got sued, and offered to turn over the domain site, got told that he still owed ford $6000.00 (3000 for each name) and he paid up, figuring it would be cheaper than to goto court. I really hope EFF would contact this guy and offer to help him, but I don't know if its possible to counter sue after you've settled, even if it was blackmail. Oh well.
Ford and Blue Oval News
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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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Like fordreallysucks is going to be the pinnacle of unbiased journalism for this story.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Read the fordreallysucks.com website, it has information on the many suits brought by ford. Apparently they have also sued a guy who runs http://www.jaguarcenter.com and http://www.jaguarenthusiastsclub.com
both sites are about the animal jaguar and both in England. The guy who ran 4fordparts.com, and 4fordtrunks.com who sells parts, got sued, and offered to turn over the domain site, got told that he still owed ford $6000.00 (3000 for each name) and he paid up, figuring it would be cheaper than to goto court. I really hope EFF would contact this guy and offer to help him, but I don't know if its possible to counter sue after you've settled, even if it was blackmail. Oh well.
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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