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Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking
An anonymous reader writes "A tiny startup that was threatened by a massive law firm over nothing more than a humble hyperlink has been forced to settle and change its linking policies, handing Goliath the win in this gratuitous trademark case. Under the agreement, real estate startup BlockShopper can no longer include hyperlinks anywhere on its website to Jones Day, a massive Chicago law firm, except explicitly on URL text. Essentially, jonesday.com is okay, but not blah blah blah." I wonder if the owners of jonesdaysucks.com feel the same way.
You know, it's where you fuck up on the Internet and the entire fucking Internet takes a moment to let you know about it.... lol
I think you're getting the effect mixed up with every South Park episode (the whole town comes to a halt, etc.), because I always thought the streisand effect (also a SP episode) was where either an event would snowball as other catch on, or if after one entity does it then others catch on and it starts to mess things up.
Then again, we could be saying the same thing, and in a way I think we are.