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Originally Posted by SRT8
Robbie then they should of done it years ago. You don't find it strange now after how many webmaster and domains it suddenly being enforced a problem? I understand their side fine.. but why let webmasters do it for years then suddenly pull the plug? No one cares to buy any of your trademarks so I can see why you side with them. lol
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I would think that they either didn't have their stuff trademarked at the time and/or didn't fully understand the laws. I can tell you this much...since piracy has all but destroyed the business, myself and many others started learning a lot more about copyright and trademarks.
It's just my opinion but I don't think that NA or ND has any "evil" intentions. I think that they are doing what things that they SHOULD have done long ago but didn't worry about. Now that all this thieving and piracy has taken place, everybody is starting to dot their "i"s and cross their "t"s getting ready for what's coming.
Unfortunately it means policing the trademark.
Either that, or they are all just evil monsters who waited patiently for webmasters to build an empire that they could then ransack.
No matter what any of us believe...bottom line is this: the days of squatting domains that are trademarked without the trademark owner coming after you are over. As I said earlier...that's a blow for folks who have made a living off of that type of promotion.