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2600 Magazine Defeats Ford

Posted by michael on from the parry-and-riposte dept.

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.

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  1. Outdated facts.... by Dios · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its interesting that the links info is a bit outdated.
    (http://www.fordreallysucks.com/more_in fo.html)

    The page hasn't been updated in some time. Nasser is no longer president/ceo of ford. In fact, a Ford family member (William Clay Ford) is now running things again (which hasn't happened in a while).

    Check out http://money.cnn.com/2001/10/30/ceos/ford/ for info.

  2. I did something like this a few years ago... by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With whitearyanresistance.com, org and net. I just wrote a Perl script that would randomly throw people to other sites like algore2000.com, blacksonblondes.com, Southern Poverty Law Center and other places.

    It did get me a few death threats and a mention on the weekly radio program of white supremacist and uber sister smoocher Tom Metzger's.

    So to Emmanuel Goldstein, CONGRATULATIONS! You have certainly taken your ideas to lengths that would stop other men cold. Most people would give up after the first lawsuit.

    To others, if you want to do some nifty activism, hijack urls of organizations you can't stand. If it isn't a registered trademark (which "white aryan resistance" wasn't) you can have fun and get death threats (mostly from illiterates).

    It's fun, try it.

  3. Slapp Suits are a terrible menace. by uncoveror · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slapp suits, that is suits meant to silence someone by falsely accusing them of libel or copyright infringement, knowing they don't have the resources to defend themselves, are a terrible menace to free speech. There should be greater consequences for wasting the courts' time with these. In some societies, anyone who came to court with a false accusation would recieve the same penalty the falsely accused would have recieved if convicted. If Ford were ordered to pay the amounts they sought from 2600, to 2600, then Slapp suits might go away. Trying them would be way to risky.

    --
    The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
  4. *sucks Domains by waldoj · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this set any sort of precedent (legal or practical) in favor of *sucks.* domain names? Is the owner of ClearChannelSucks.org on better footing now than he was a week ago? (I hope so. :)

    -Waldo Jaquith