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The Saga of Katie.com

Posted by michael on from the make-it-a-porn-site dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Dear Ianoo, by ergonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HAHA. Nice one.

  2. Another victim becomes an abuser.... by jjh37997 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anybody know why its so common for victims of childhood sexual abuse to become abusers, either sexual or otherwise, later on in life?

  3. Re:Tough Noogies by Mr+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Shove", perhaps

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    The Family Guy is now a part of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. It's written specifically for AS, so now it's become much...how to put it...less subtle in it's skits. However, my roommates and myself find it even more humorous now since they don't have the limitations that they had on Fox...

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