Stupid greedy asshole got what he deserved. Could have made bank by selling it for 1 million already. But the greed rulebook said to keep raising it to 75 million.
Fuck Lamborghini too.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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He raised the price higher than the cost of going to WIPO to deal with it. If he set the price to $1 or 2 million they likely would have paid it. $75 million is bonkers.
He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone.
Yes, fuck poor people for trying to screw over corporations.
Is that what you call scalpers, scammers and thieves, "the poor"? I agree that in most cases they are poor, but they are also assholes that deserve it.
Eventually the precedent would just become 'poor people' fucking over everyone, including other 'poor people' just trying to start their own business. I get what you're saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer
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Don't have much sympathy for this person but no company has any more right to a domain name than any of us and this sets a scary precedence.
The person who owns a trademark or copyright has a right to use that trademark and the onus to defend that trademark from other people using it. We used to allow anyone to call themselves anything they way, and it turned out badly.
I don't really feel any sympathy for this guy.
Unpopular opinion, but the judge was right. There would be zero benefit to society to reward this absolute cybersquatter. There's an almost zero benefit to reward a corporation. Both bad, but the corporation should get it in this case.
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This fucking thread 🤣
Scary! Sets precedent🤦♂️!
This shit has been going on for 25 years and complaining have been ripped away for this bullshit before.
Nothing burger. Judge was right.
Always crazy seeing people lick the boots of huge corporations like this. Do you think they give you a Lamborghini for it?
I don't care how much I hate someone, or otherwise how evil they are: when they are right I will support and cheer them. I can still oppose them in other ways, here they are in the right.
Naw, I have a 911. Eat my ass.
It's not bootlicking, you weirdo. It's recognizing when one thing is right and one thing is wrong. Just because a company does something doesn't make it automatically wrong.
I know it might be a crazy concept that is hard to grasp, but the world isn't totally black and white. It's almost like bad people can do good things sometimes. And good people can do bad things sometimes. Your way of thinking is exactly the way Republicans justify all the evil shit they do. They are religious, which makes them good people, and therefore everything they do is good. In your case, you think a corporation is bad and therefore everything they do is bad.
Shows you the type of people that are on Lemmy.
"stop defending corporations"
It's like we hate the corporation too but they're correct in this instance.