• olympicyes@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      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.

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        29 days ago

        He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone.

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        28 days 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.

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        28 days 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