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Originally Posted by Brujah
This isn't a content theft issue. Apples and oranges.
This is an issue of abusive trademark and domain rights. Maybe even selective enforcement. Definitely the pot calling the kettle black with Shap knowingly infringing on the trademarks of others, which is something hdkiller did not do.
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Right and those people can at anytime contact him and ask him for the URL's
No one person has asked him to.. nor do we know if over the years other deals were not made.. That would be assuming that anyone else other then Shap knows how and what deals were made for the URL's in question.. Without this info it is mere assumptions.
So to me its a mute point.. Until someone steps up and post that they have no deal in place... 10+ pages later and still nothing...
As for is this about content theft or not..
Ya ok so the main point not I do agree with that I just get pissed when I see it happening and like anything that removes it..
But as the main point is about copy right/TM and when looking at it for what it is..
It being a legal issue and not a moral one and looking at it in only that light then let the courts rule on it..
A secondary sub-point is the content theft.. Fine maybe that should be left to a dif thread.. so I will STFU about it in here...
This all said I've already posted that morally I don't agree... As I feel for the webmasters.. and would hate for it to happen to me..
But legally I do see that Shap is in his full rights to protect and enforce his TM.. I'm not him and I don't work for him so I will not even try to tell someone else what they should do with their TM... Nor try to place my morals on someone else who is doing things legally with their TM and Biz.. So I say send it to legal.. let the courts etc work it out.. or try to workout a deal...