Originally Posted by Shap

It amazes me how so many of you seem to be sitting around just waiting for something like this to happen to make your day. None of you know the full details of the situation and yet you all are instantly Trademark Lawyer and Business consultants informing me what a slimy shitty asshole business owner I am. Seriously with times as tough as they are how do any of you have that much time to devote to someone you do no business with?

Regarding the Trademark situation. I've been in this business for 10+ years. All of our success has been the result of our hard work from the ground up. Nothing was achieved by stealing or scamming anyone. I'm not interested in stealing people's traffic. I'm just following what multiple lawyers (and multiple law firms) have recommend I do. I don't know shit about trademark law. I leave that up to the lawyers and hope they are giving me good advice. That said I honestly believe there are a number of domains using the name sextube that did so without knowing about the sextube trademark and most likely just registered a domain to use. The had no intention of causing us harm. There are also a number of domains that are riding off the sextube trademark and surviving 100% on search engine traffic that is coming from sextube. We have to protect ourselves. In doing so some people are going to be pissed at us. I'm hoping we can resolve every situation so all parties come away happy.

It's very obvious nobody in this thread has ever dealt with me. You are all so quick to crucify us without even knowing the story. Anybody who knows me knows I'm not interested in hardsextube's traffic. I'm just interested in making sure my interests are protected.