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This reminds me of Nissan motors chasing the man of the same name that was harassed by them for 25 years to buy/steal the nissan.com domain after car vendor fin
by bastard_op 3y ago
This reminds me of Nissan motors chasing the man of the same name that was harassed by them for 25 years to buy/steal the nissan.com domain after car vendor finally figured out what the Internet was good for. Nissan Motors first tried to low-ball him, and then sued, repeatedly for the next couple decades to simply "take" the domain, but he won over and over - it was his freakin' NAME, and fairly got it first.
Tough luck Nissan motors, at least the Japanese court stood up for the man and his rights. The owner finally died after covid in 2020, and the domain still sits parked.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/35179/the-man-who-fought-nissan-over-a-website-and-won-has-died-of-covid-19 https://www.thedrive.com/news/35179/the-man-who-fought-nissa...
Something tells me if this were Apple in the US, he's have been steamrolled like a piece of dung left in the road and domain taken as these poor bastards daring to use a fruit borne from the beginning of time before Apple Inc will now get.