WiredPod, a Malaysia technology blog has been hit with a lawsuit from Wired magazine. Previously, the author of visa.com.my was forced to give up the domain name and website due to a Visa International lawsuit.
Yeah, it’s just a “wired†+ a “podâ€, and I’ve got a blardy lawsuit from some big corporations attorneys, who has job is to find make the world a more “messier†life for folks like me. I still think that this is ridiculous.
WiRED.Pod Has Been Hit With A Lawsuit
My two cents
I never did relate the words “wiredpod” with “Wired magazine”. To me, “wired” is a common word, so instead, “wiredpod” reminds me of Apple’s “iPod”. :P
Are lawyers making money by surfing the Internet and sending out warning emails to innocent webmasters? Snatching their domain names and closing down their websites by one simple email message?
What can individual bloggers do to protect ourselves? In my opinion, choose a unique name and put a disclaimer message on every page.
(I gonnna update my Mac Switcher site…)
lol. your statement is half true. there are some lawyers who specialize in this type of field. we refer to them as ‘trademark lawyers’. their job is basically go through the internet, publications around THE WORLD looking for stuff which may infringe their customer’s copyright. huge arse companies spent a lot of money retaining their trademark licenses.
They just wanna shut down the competition at it’s roots.
really stupid…it never reminded me of wired mag at all!
I would think that the Wired Mag actually using this tactic to promote their site, cause I didn’t even know of the site until now, free publicity, free advertising and no need to send out spam mail to promote site. Wired Mag should pay Wiredpod for this.