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Somebody's jealous! 

Quote:The student entrepreneur behind the milliondollarhomepage.com is facing the threat of legal action from the firm that paid more than $38,000 for the last 1,000 pixels.

Milliondollarweightloss.com secured the last slot on Alex Tew's website after he auctioned it on eBay.

But the FT reports that lawyers representing the weight-loss site are preparing to sue Tew in a US court for "breach of contract", among other things

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/million_pixel/

The buyer is a weenie 

I foresee more lawsuits in the future The Million TM-infringement homepage?

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I saw that article too. 

The buyer who won that auction is a shooting star power seller (and eBay Stores owner) on eBay:
http://stores.ebay.com/GREAT-DEALS-DEPOT .  In the promo boxes on their eBay Store the featured product is "BIG MAN'S 12" PENIS PUMP ENLARGER ENHANCER & 3 SLEEVES!" 

The auction ended the 11th and they threaten a lawsuit 9 days later??? 

9 days from auction close to lawyers desk must be a new record  : 

Article on copycat sites:

Quote:Over at the internet's ultimate success story for 2005, The Million Dollar Homepage, plans are said to be underway for 'The Billion Dollar Homepage' -- but meanwhile, imitators are springing up everywhere, although few look like more than wishful thinking done well after the fact.

But not everyone inspired by Mr Tew's success is doing exactly the same thing he did.

High on the list of novel approaches to pixel marketing are a couple of websites selling "tags" -- ways of organising data from the bottom up.

The top player in this effort, at least by apparent results and tidiness of design, is a site called 1000tags.com...

full article: http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=14130&cid=3&cname=Technology