In a rare legal move, Aylo subsidiary Licensing IP used a cybersquatting lawsuit to take out pirate websites infringing on its trademarks. The ‘in rem’ approach allowed the court to order the direct transfer of domains including mydirtyhobby.to without requiring personal jurisdiction over the site operators. The ruling, issued last week, requires the .to registry to transfer the trademark-infringing domains
Using an already shitty law that only supports the rich in a warped way to also help the rich…
Could have warned about the porn link
Ha! That’s an interesting case.
The line about contacting owners but none appeared seems a little suspicious (I’m sure they didn’t try too hard) and a good reason to make sure contact info is up to date. Or it wasn’t worth it and just get a new domain…
