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When Smurfs Attack!

Quote:Having been toasted in a recent Belgian children's cartoon, Smurfs are now on the counter-attack, mounting an intellectual property rampage against domain name holders. Studio Peyo, which owns the rights to the Smurfs trademark and copyright, has been sending out threatening letters to webmasters who use the name in their web addresses.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/08/...n_revenge/

Webmasters defy litigious Smurfs

Quote:Webmasters are standing defiant against an attack of litigious little blue cartoon characters, taking the fight deep into enemy territory. Which we believe is Belgium.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/12/...efy_smurf/

ha ha

http://websmurfer.devnull.net/cgi-bin/tr...type=smurf&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuliptools.com

Quote:SmurfsOnline
Users Online 3 Guests, 2 Smurfs(1 Hidden)
Smurfsactive in past 15 minutes:
jezebel

The Smurfs' lawyer needs to buy the 'domains for dummies' book since he thinks you have to register subdomains. 

The Smurf translator guy has an update

http://smurflaw.suxs.net/

Quote:Legal Threats  and other news ... 
UPDATE (2005-11-13): smurflaw.suxs.net
Here's something else for which the online community can now thank Olivia and the IMPS (see their legal threat emails below): SuxS.Net. I registered that domain and set the new site up to let anyone in the world who wants to set up a critical or satirical site without the danger of losing the site's name to the UDRP (or most trademark laws) register a safe name for their site. Using this, the WebSmurfer is now available as smurflaw.suxs.net.