We have covered file sharing from time to time. We covered the legal troubles of thepiratebay.org over the last year and now 2 new development spell more bad news for file sharing or torrent sites. Some of these torrent sites are the most visited on the net but that looks more every day that their days are numbered. Just last week a federal judge ordered the file sharing site, LimeWire.com to … [Read more...]
National A-1 Raided By The FBI & Other Law Enforcement
As reported by Elliotsblog.com, AVN.com and Xbiznewswire.com, the offices of National A-1 located in Philadelphia, were raided today by "more than 100 law enforcement agents from the FBI and local police." National A-1 operates some adult sites, including HotMovies.com and GayMovies.com. According to the articles, "the FBI agents were armed with search warrants and more than 100 employees … [Read more...]
Is Comcast A Cybersquatter? A Law Suit Says Yes: The Case Of Fancast.com
A company Fancaster, Inc. sued Comcast (which has agreed to buy NBC, awaiting regulatory approval) in federal court in New Jersey back in 2008 over the domain Fancast.com under the Lanham Act, for trademark infringement, false designation of origin and unfair competition, trade name infringement and cybersquatting. A court hearing was held yesterday on the case where the court granted the … [Read more...]
SnapNames/Oversee.net Settles Class Action & Case With Brady
Oversee.net just announced that it has settled two outstanding cases from the Brady Bidding Scandal. One was a class action bought by some of the bidders on the SnapNames.com system that were effected by Brady's bidding. The other case settled today was the action that Oversee brought against Brady seeking $33 Million dollars. For our own account at SnapNames.com we took our settlement … [Read more...]
US Trademark Office Wants Your Comments on Trademark Bullying
The US trademark office has opened up a comment period and wants feedback on Trademark Bullying: We all know of cases where trademark owners have tried to use their trademark to get domains that are well beyond their trademarks and/or use scare tactics and other questionable practices in attempting to get domains away from their owners. Here are the details including information on how you … [Read more...]
FecaBook.com Sells On SnapNames.com For $14K
With Facebook.com just filing suit against 2 other sites in just a matter of a couple of months I was pretty surprised to see a typo of Facebook, FecaBook.com just sell on SnapNames.com for $14,149. Of course the parked page is full of ads for facebook.com and other social networking sites, making the domain available for the taking through a UDRP. The domain of course gets thousands of … [Read more...]
FaceBook.com Sues FacePorn.com
According to ComputerWorld.com, Facebook filed suit on October 15th today against Faceporn.com, alleging the site essentially copied Facebook to build an adult social networking platform "Until recently, Faceporn billed itself as "the number one socializing porn and sex network," offering a range of pornographic content. However it now says it's offline for a redesign. "We're currently … [Read more...]