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Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights
popo writes "Just when you thought ownership of intellectual property couldn't get any more absurd: The New York Times is reporting that the word 'Stealth' is being vigorously protected *in all uses* by a man who claims to exclusively own its rights. Not only has he gone head to head with Northrop Grumman, he has pursued it vigorously in the courts and has even managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth". What's terrifying is that he's gotten as far as he has."
What's terrifying is that he's gotten as far as he has.
Not really, I'd just have to say that he's been very furtive and sneaky about it, indeed, he's acted quite surreptitiously about the whole thing.
Omit the registering and the lawsuit, and I might be interested.
Would it be unconstitutional if Congress made a law to... you know... just smack this guy with a rolled-up newspaper or something?
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
... I'm the owner of PenIsland.com (Get your free pen from us) and I've received a few legal threats from several homosexually-oriented pornography websites (the url's of which I am not of liberty to disclose). This is an outrage, clearly all I am trying to do is provide the world with a service of free pens.
(In case you didn't realise, I don't own the domain and this post was a joke >.>)
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth".
I had an acquaintance who worked at a company called Via Grafix in Pryor, OK. The company has been around at least since early nineties. Their website is viagrafix.com. He complained to me that they would get all this email about people asking about viagra. He said those people thought it said ViagraFix not ViaGrafix. I guess it was lucky they got the domain long before viagra came along.
They made a piece of software called DesignCAD, which is a stupid name, because CAD means Computer Aided Design.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
>> If programmers ran the world, the law would be clear, concise, and unambiguous
Just like Perl.
http://request-header.info
And besides, Joshua wasn't really evil, just a little confused.
Someone who's this greedy... would discretely get his ass kicked one day
Do you mean stealthily?
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3.0 (Forked) So we decided to fork the law. A bunch of us used to work for BritainCo. but we were totally bummed out by their management. So we formed US Inc. We're still going to support legacy laws under the British system because, frankly, it works well enough, it's really big and it'd cost a fortune to overhaul it.
Happy Fork Day!