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The Saga of Katie.com
digitalcaffeine writes "The gist of the story is that Katie Tarbox became a victim of an online sexual predator when she was 13. She wrote a book about it in 2000 and Penguin Putnam made the title of the book 'Katie.Com', which unfortunately was a domain name owned by Katie Jones since 1996. Now Tarbox's lawyer is demanding that Jones turn over the domain name.
Penguin refuses to apologize, saying that it would be a violation of their free speech to re-title the book and that Jones never trademarked katie.com, so they can do what they want with the words."
Website gang-raped by thousands of Slashdotters. Film at 11...
Why doesn't the real (slim?) Katie make katie.com a convienient mirror of, say, goatse. Then the people will complain to Penguin and they'll be forced to do something. Like change the title. It's her right to decide the content of her page, right? So I think she'd even be in the clear :-)
:)
Of course ligit visitors might think Katie is a weirdo, but hey. It's better than having Katie.tv_fm_info_dumbtld
My other car is first.
FSF should sue Penguin and get Tux's name back.
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Maybe Penguin should have thought about that before releasing the book? Dumbasses. On the plus side, I've decided to becoming a budding author. My debut book is scheduled to be released on April 1 2005, and its name will be "cia.gov".
I notice that you currently own the name "slashdot.org". Our research shows you never trademarked this name. Last week, I applied for a trademark on the terms "slashdot", "slashdot.org" and "slashdot.com" and these have been granted. Therefore I require you to hand over your domain immediately, or face legal proceedings.
Yours Sincerely,
I.P. Freely
1. Write a book called Amazon.com about ancient warrior women that are stalked online.
2. Take control of said domain name then sell it back.
3. Profit
Unlike the plans of the underpants gnomes and SCO, this one may actually be crazy enough to work.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
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... how is Darl McBride involved? I mean come on, doesn't he *really* own the trademark to penguins?
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My book Google.com is going to be a bestseller!
Chances are that we'll solve this whole dillema by reducing her server to a smoldering pile of rubble anyways....
Although it's holding up well so far...
1) Name book after existing, small time website
2) Create small copywrite-related controversy over said site
3) Get small site url posted on Slashdot.
4) Reduce small website to smouldering ruin
5) Offer to accept smouldering ruin as "donation."
Wow, both girl.com and katie.com are truly horrible titles. Who thinks of this crap?
Honestly, this whole thing sounds like this is a story the editors misqueued back in 1998. What does Penguin think -- that they're going to make a fortune off banner ads and the katie.com IPO?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Yours Sincerely,
IPFreely
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
People with their own domain name are leeching potential profits off corporations, thereby destroying the economy!
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Duran
Katie should redirect katie.com to tubgirl for a while. I bet that will get Penguin off her back in a hurry.
Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
Cool, time for me to release a hardcore gay movie called microsoft.com. I mean, what grounds would they have to object?
Windows already is gay porn you insensative clod.
penguin.com--that would be a good title for a book about business uses of Linux, wouldn't it?
Simple: They're fucked up.
:-)
Okay, I'll be quiet now
Yes, but Nancy McKeon and Judith Light need the work.
Well you can't call it microsoft.com unless you have a Steve Balmer look-a-like jumping around like a babboon, preferably on a gimpy looking guy with glasses. ;)
Of course, I'm putting too much thought into that, so I'll just stop now *cringes*
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Apparently the book got renamed at the last minute because girl.com (the original name) was a porn site. The solution for Katie Jones as owner (and sole publisher of content) of katie.com seems obvious to me!
when was the last time you clicked on a link in a book you were reading
Just a few minutes ago, actually. I thing the book is broken though as nothing happened.
I suggest making it an internet meme on the scale to shame savekaryn.com. She runs a chat thing, somebody here has to know her. Set up a donation site to collectively, temporarily buy her domain. Get somebody like Stile to be the webmaster, somebody who is used to having a whole lotta people mad at him/her. Once the appropriate sum has been reached (say, the amount of money she'd need to take a year off, sounds like she needs it), turn it over to Slashdotters - the trollers, the goatse boosters, the sick child who pulls the wings off flies in each of us - to collectively create the website you absolutely would not want to go to. Popups, grossly NSFW images, midi renditions of "Eye of the Tiger" that won't shut off. Ought to clear the matter up in about a year. Then give it back.
It Is the Nature of Information to Transgress Artificial Boundaries
So, we learn that she's a cowardly little brat, incapable of standing up for herself. Gee, if she always lets people walk all over her and always bends to whatever authority figure presents itself, she could end up being taken advantage of by some manipulative jerk.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
and one stalking victim to another.
Nice to see that KatieT's bad experiences left her with so much empathy for others. Seems like she got what she deserved a priori. It is truly a mysterious universe.
I mean when was the last time you clicked on a link in a book you were reading?
:-)
Not since the CueCat
C'mon now! That's a fake name! How about Katie gzipBox or Katie rarball?
Best Buy can have you arrested
My brand of revenge is a little different. To embarrass the HELL out of Penguin, I'd make Katie.com a porn site.
I guess they haven't noticed that there's another company using the same name now.
I'm sure publishing this on the front page of Slashdot really helps her save bandwidth.
Yeah and at Krispy Kreme from the look of those pictures.
As every decent person does I am sorry for what happened to Katherine Tarbox. However, this does not releve her of any of the personal responsability as a moral human being to stop what has/is happening to Katie Jones.
If she has any sence of morality she personally will stop this and make amends.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
Never underestimate the power of geeks in large numbers.
This has been done already.
Check out www.hotmale.com
I think i'll pass on the website; i'll just have to take your word for it.
er.. you just dissappeared up your own arsehole..
Apparently the book got renamed at the last minute because girl.com (the original name) was a porn site. The solution for Katie Jones as owner (and sole publisher of content) of katie.com seems obvious to me!
I had about the same idea, turn katie.com into a porn site, one of those "Just 18" sites, or the like, and, of course, call all of the models on the sign up page, "Katie". Get some basic content, pics, movie clips etc. and then use the book's fame against it. Might even be worth it to have a bunch of fiction posted on the site as well. Hell, go for the spike, and have lolita type fiction, and advertise this fact on the front page. If nothing else, the amout of controversy this will create will draw a ton of people to the site, just to see what it is all about. Once the site gets really popular, sell it to one of the bigger porn companies, and get out in style.
But then, I am vindictive that way.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
Besides, think about it for a minute: Micro? Soft? Not exactly a good name for pornography.
Good point. Do you think this might explain some of Microsoft's behaviors-- like maybe they are compensating for something?
I wonder if calling the porn movie "MacroHard" would work? It could be about a dweebish geek who just happened to be hung like a horse but was clueless about how to use this hardware. Maybe he needs to rely on telephone tech support... from India... hmmm. Could make for a good mainstream comedy.
That's a good start, but it's got too much plot.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
She could check with the Faroe Islands to see if tarbox.fo is available then redirect to that. (Strangely there doesn't seem to be a .fu TLD.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
It's shiny, it's her birthday and she wantss it, yesss my precious.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hmmm, I think I'll write a song entitled "201-463-8663" and then sue her for the number. After all, it'd violate my first ammendment rights to not have the phone number of the song I wrote!
Dyolf Knip
They are trying to compensate this by releasing Long Horn.
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Somebody should write a book and name it "aftab.com" and then sue the lawyer to give up her domain name.
C. Gibson might not appreciate you posting his/her phone# to be Slashdotted...
Well, no, Microsoft.com (the hardcore gay porn movie) could be the touching, heart-rending tale of a young closeted male with great looks but a small member and erectile dysfunction who, through friends on the internet, discovers the joy of playing for the other team as a catcher.
And here is a link to Pary's mug shot.
Yikes.
You can't handle the truth.
What's wrong with using http://members.webs.net/pages/k/a/t/katy/index.htm for a book title? :-)