2600 Magazine Defeats Ford

narftrek cut-and-pastes the text from 2600's announcement that Ford has conceded the case they brought against 2600 over a certain domain. Our earlier story has some background. A Volvo repair shop near me is named "Island Vo Vo"; the L is silent, you see, because Ford really sucks.

Comments

Why is 2600 doing this anyway?

[agilen]

I'm sorry, I'm not too up on this case, but it seems to me like bunch of geeks crying "Freedom from the man!" over some stupid childish prank. I mean seriously, what is so great about being able to have fuckgeneralmotors.com and being allowed to link it to ford? /. is making this out to be some kind of huge victory for hacker freedom or something. I see it as a huge victory for people with way too much time on their hands who are just trying to be assholes all the time.

It seems like there is always a war to be fought around here, and I agree most of the time that some crappy stuff goes on. But why don't we put all of our resources into the fights that are worth fighting? If the "hacker community" wants to gain any sort of respect or acceptance so that people in power will listen to our side in say, fighthing the DMCA, it can't be whining about not having the right to do totally foolish things like point fuckgeneralmotors.com at Ford.

I certainly hope 2600 gets NO reimbursment from Ford for their legal fees. They don't deserve any. Cases like this are a waste of the legal system's resources, and I lose more respect for 2600 fighting and whining that they can't play a stupid prank than I do for Ford suing over this.

If this post gets modded as a troll, it just goes to prove how the /. crowd will latch onto any cause, whether its a worthy/useful cause or not. If not, well, maybe there is hope after all. Lets stop wasting our time, bolstering our image as whiney children, and actually fight about something useful.