Pull your head out of your ass and get some air.

Tube has become generic for video site.

Face[word] is obvious hanging off the back off Facebook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._Lindows

and you morons might want to actually read the relevent case law before commenting

mz also used the term facebook before his product thefacebook.com was every released

and it was implemented by harvard, and dozens of res at dozens of universities too (in fact that where he got the name from)

the case law is on point.

great argument. makes for such a productive discussion.

ha great advice.

a porn socialnetworking site called FACEporn that used the same fonts and colors as FACEbook.

it's a slam dunk for nextri.

isn't norway part of the eu anyways?

did you even read that? it says facebook has a strong case.

Nope. And I'm glad we aren't. yet.

she said they would have a good copyright case, not trademark

that issue is a past only issue.

and if he can document an attempt to work with them on that issue, he can mitigate the damage on that.

Anything starting with Face can "face" a lawsuit?

Faceporn + unique design and site = No issue
Faceporn + site design that looks very much like Facebook = "confusingly similar" and bad faith usage. You fucked yourself with that design...changing it after the fact doesn't save you.

Octopus.com was just lost in UDRP to a business called Octopus Travel. Octopus.com was a 1-word generic domain registered since 1989. Why was it lost? Because the owner knew about Octopus Travel (which was obvious - he had WORKED there) and bought Octopus.com and put travel ads on it clearly in bad faith. Octopus.com + a site about octopus with no travel ads and he was fine. Throw in the travel ads and he lost his 5-6 figure name.

Simply put, you're going to lose. Enjoy the fight and enjoy the ensuing bankruptcy.

They own the word "face" and "book".

shutdown and stop the damages

I agree. If you bought Faceporn.com before Facebook was popular, sure I'd agree with the OP.

But if not, the OP is taking the success of FB and using it to promote porn. Also, typing in "face" in the URL bar it takes you to FB.

Since the C&D, did you (the OP) make changes to your website? Is it true the layout was once like FB? I'm guessing we aren't getting the whole story.

Yeah, there were a lot of changes made both before and after the c&d. In my opinion it wasn't confusingly similar at all. We even asked them to dictate changes on what they had a problem with and were willing to work with them. Instead of doing that, they did not respond back to us in 11 months, then they filed the lawsuit.

I still can't get it. The US copyright law is so fucked up... For example, why it's ok with Star Trek and Star Wars porn parody movies, but it's not ok with Facebook porn parody sites?

http://blog.aebn.net/wp-content/uplo...er-280x360.jpg

Could some one explain me this?

Had we made it as a parody site, and clearly gone out of our way to parody every aspect of their site, than that would probably not be a problem.
But then again, they are suing lamebook who is trying to use the parody defense.

maybe they will use it as an excuse to hold funds for plugrush customers.

wait, they already did that.