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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.
""the L is silent because Ford really sucks"
You know, it's moments like this that make me realize that the vapid, heartless, childish, snide front-page editorializing on slashdot is the only reason i still read this damn site.
keep up the good work, cheers
we would see the following domain name registered:
o m
http://www.fuckfordfuckthemuptheirstupidasses.c
(which is free, btw)
-D
This isn't the "Jilted lovers of Gerarld, Lita, and Mary Ford" support group?
A Volvo repair shop near me is named "Island Vo Vo"; the L is silent...
The only 'L' I see is in 'island' - does that mean they pronounce it 'eyeand Vo Vo'?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
I agree - it isn't good publicity to use domain names like fuck[competitor] to point your site (who ever does it) - most of people really get the idea that the domain name owner and site content is from same source. To emphasize my business I would never say anything so negative about competitors.
This seems like ethical question I've never seen discussed before. I understand both sides - would have been professional from Ford to ask 2600-guys pointing fuckGM to Ford's site - but also vice versa... would have been very nice from 2600 to ask Ford what they would like if fuckGM pointed to their site. And afterwards it isn't hard to say what would have happened...
2600: Can we point fuckGM to your site?
Ford: That's not good business for us, please don't.
2600: We'll do it anyway.
Ford: See you in court.
Eh?
Set up some addresses in your host file, and make sure that takes precedance over DNS lookups.
... (you get the picture)
[fords-ip] fordbites.com
[fords-ip] fordsucks.com
[fords-ip]
Then sit and write a shell script that grabs their home page using each of these names, say, once per hour.
They'll be looking at their logs, and see all these Hostname: headers coming through and be totally confused. They'll come after you for spreading these "trademark-tarnishing" domains to the world -- but little do they it's just some stupid script on your server.
Actually, what may even be a bit cooler but takes more time - write a script that generates random Hostname: headers for all requests to Ford's servers..
Hmm.
That reminds me of the time the mathies took over alt.niggers. The new FAQ pointed out that the newsgroup name was an acronym for "Number theory, Integration, Graph theory, Group theory, Enumeration, Recursion, Set theory".