Manwin the company which owns some high traffic adult sites including YouPorn.com, and PornHub.com and operates Playboy.com under license of Playboy, along with another large adult operator, and DigitalPlayground.com just filed a Federal Lawsuit against ICM the company that operates the .XXX Registry and ICANN over the .XXX Top Level Domain ("TLD"). The 44 page suit was filed in the United … [Read more...]
Breaking: Owner Of YouPorn.com Plans To File Suit Against ICM & ICANN Over .XXX For Anti-Trust
The ICM Registry has just issued a statement indicating that an anti-trust lawsuit will be filed by Manwin against both ICM Registry and ICANN in conjunction with the .XXX domain Top Level Domain. Manwin is the company which owns many highly visited adult sites including, YouPorn.com, Brazzers.com, PornHub.com and Xtube.com The statement reads: "Our public relations company alerted us to … [Read more...]
Switch Communications Files Federal Lawsuit Against Buyer Of Switch.Net
According to Vegasinc.com, the dispute over the domain name Switch.net which was won on Namejet.com for $3,700 on November 18th which had a UDRP filed against in 2 days after acquisition by a Swiss company, is now the subject of a federal lawsuit filed under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. "Switch Communications Group LLC, operator of a big data center in Las Vegas, sued a … [Read more...]
I Found a Group That Loves the E-Parasite-Bill: Trademark Lawyers
I found a group today that loves the E-Parasite-Bill as well as the Protect IP bill. Trademark Lawyers. In a session on counterfeiting websites at the IP Law Institute today, the panelists and the IP lawyer filed conference chatted about the E-Parasite-Bill as well as the Protect IP bill. Seems that they love both. "what of the two bills give the brandowners more protection?" a lawyer … [Read more...]
National A-1 Pleads Guilt To Money Laundering, Forfeits $4.9M, Pays $1.5M fine and Forfeits Escorts.com
According to an ABC News report just out National A-1 Advertising Inc. and R.S. Duffy Inc. agreed to plead guilty to money launderin and will forfeit $4.9 million, pay a $1.5 million fine and serve 1 1/2 years of probation for its activities in operating Escorts.com. National A-1 according to the story will also forfeit the domain name Escorts.com (although it would seem they have forfeited … [Read more...]
Godaddy Likes The E-PARASITE Bill & TechDirt.com Rips Them
Over the weekend, Christine Jones general counsel and corporate secretary of GoDaddy.com wrote a piece that appeared in Politico.com in support of the E-Parasite Bill. In the piece Ms. Jones write in part: ""It's a welcome step in the right direction, and we at GoDaddy.com applaud the leadership in the House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, … [Read more...]
PROTECT IP Becomes The “E-PARASITE” Bill In The House & As Bad As The Senate Bill Was This Is Much Worse
Yesterday Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced HR 3261, the ‘‘Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act of 2011’’, also known as the “E-PARASITE Act. Its the house version of the PROTECT IP Bill which is even more stringent, provides great penalties on a wider range of people than the quite harsh PROTECT … [Read more...]