| Originally posted by Lew
namedropper - can I view your list of names?
Are you not capable of following the link that's listed at the bottom of all my posts?
And you say you are NOT a corporate sympathizer?
Sympathizer, LOL. You make it sound like you are on an anti-communist witch hunt or something.
Actually, I think corporations tend to be more bad than good. Most of them do immoral things solely to make themselves filthy rich. And I think Disney, as one of the largest supporters of needlessly increasing copyright terms way beyond any reasonable amount, is definitely guilty of that.
But my anti-corporation inclinations don't force me to assume that everything they do is wrong. What you did in this case was competely inexcusable, both on a moral and legal basis.
Can you explain disneycard.com to me?
First of all, it's almost impossible that Disney+anything.com could be anything but a trademark violation. When you clearly squatted on the name like DisneyMovie.com you've already proven bad faith.
But DisneyCard.com itself? Well, for starters, greeting card companies pay money to license Disney characters. Then there are the two John mentioned.
How about this: you tell me how *any* use of the name DisneyCard.com could possibly not infringe upon their trademark.
Besides, if you really knew what you were talking about, you would know that "cybersquatting" was created to prevent people from purchasing company trademarks and trying to sell them back to the trademark holder for large sums of money.
...and also the act of unfairly profiting of someone else's good name, which is exactly what you were doing.
The dash is used and recognized as a space by every DN server in the world - so you DO REALIZE that you CAN have spaces - right?
This is so lame. Dashes are not spaces, and they are not "recognized as a space by every DN server in the world." Some people use them as spaces, but it's very uncommon. In fact, most people avoid them like the plague and assume everyone is smart enough to realize that you just drop the spaces when typing in domains that have more than one word in them.
Not to mention that whether you assume a space is dropped or replaced with a dash, either way it has no effect whether a domain name is a trademark violation. Hell, you could decide to use the letter X in place of spaces and it'd still be a violation.
It takes a lot of nerve and an amazing amount of stupidity to come here, admit that you were making money off of DisneyMovie.com, and not expect to get flamed off the face of the planet. It's exactly these kind of actions that make the rest of us look bad.
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