▲ 279 ▼ Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith (www.techradar.com) submitted 11 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 97 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] falseWhite@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 child) He raised the price higher than the cost of going to WIPO to deal with it. If he set the price to $1 or 2 million they likely would have paid it. $75 million is bonkers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 11 months ago He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ethnss@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 months ago (3 children) Yes, fuck poor people for trying to screw over corporations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago He bought the domain for $10000. Not sure what your definition of poor is, but in my opinion someone poor isn't "investing" in expensive domain names. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bunitonito@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago Eventually the precedent would just become 'poor people' fucking over everyone, including other 'poor people' just trying to start their own business. I get what you're saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 child) He raised the price higher than the cost of going to WIPO to deal with it. If he set the price to $1 or 2 million they likely would have paid it. $75 million is bonkers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 11 months ago He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 11 months ago He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ethnss@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 months ago (3 children) Yes, fuck poor people for trying to screw over corporations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago He bought the domain for $10000. Not sure what your definition of poor is, but in my opinion someone poor isn't "investing" in expensive domain names. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bunitonito@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago Eventually the precedent would just become 'poor people' fucking over everyone, including other 'poor people' just trying to start their own business. I get what you're saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago He bought the domain for $10000. Not sure what your definition of poor is, but in my opinion someone poor isn't "investing" in expensive domain names. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bunitonito@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago Eventually the precedent would just become 'poor people' fucking over everyone, including other 'poor people' just trying to start their own business. I get what you're saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer permalink fedilink source parent