I'm an internet broadcaster here in Canada. I've been following CARP closely and I've been filling out all the forms that I can to voice my disapproval. This sucks because you know that our spineless Canadian Lawmakers here will just buckle under and follow suit with Tariff-22 .
If we can defeat T-22 in Canada then everyone can move their servers to Canada and avoid the tariff and screw the commie bastards!
Disinformation does not play nice with others
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Just a little inside info on Disinformation.com:
I have fairly personal expereience with the owners of this site as, at one time, ran a entertainment & news magazine ( of the dead tree variety ) called, oddly enough Disinformation Magazine here in Vancouver, Canada. We also ran a related website under the domain we registered, www.disinfo.org. We started up Jan 25, '99. the following Febuary, The Disinformation Company ( parent of dismagazine.com ) served us with a cease and desist order for the use of www.disinfo.org and the name Disinformation magazine. Upon doing some research and getting legal advice we found that we the trademark for which we were being hastled was only applied for in Canada, not granted. and only a month before we recived a cease and desist order. Since we had been publishing for a significant amount of time before the trademark was appied for, we could beat the order under with proof of prior use. It is under Canadian common law. But, since we were cash strapped, we came to a very one sided arangement with our tormenters. Disinformation payed us 500 US for our domain and after significant hasstles and delays, paid for the registration of www.dismagazine.com
We have since moved on to other, non profit things, but are pretty weary of these guys.
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I'm an internet broadcaster here in Canada. I've been following CARP closely and I've been filling out all the forms that I can to voice my disapproval. This sucks because you know that our spineless Canadian Lawmakers here will just buckle under and follow suit with Tariff-22 . If we can defeat T-22 in Canada then everyone can move their servers to Canada and avoid the tariff and screw the commie bastards!
Just a little inside info on Disinformation.com:
I have fairly personal expereience with the owners of this site as, at one time, ran a entertainment & news magazine ( of the dead tree variety ) called, oddly enough Disinformation Magazine here in Vancouver, Canada. We also ran a related website under the domain we registered, www.disinfo.org. We started up Jan 25, '99. the following Febuary, The Disinformation Company ( parent of dismagazine.com ) served us with a cease and desist order for the use of www.disinfo.org and the name Disinformation magazine. Upon doing some research and getting legal advice we found that we the trademark for which we were being hastled was only applied for in Canada, not granted. and only a month before we recived a cease and desist order. Since we had been publishing for a significant amount of time before the trademark was appied for, we could beat the order under with proof of prior use. It is under Canadian common law. But, since we were cash strapped, we came to a very one sided arangement with our tormenters. Disinformation payed us 500 US for our domain and after significant hasstles and delays, paid for the registration of www.dismagazine.com
We have since moved on to other, non profit things, but are pretty weary of these guys.