"Tom L. Neal" <jneal@NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?x=dAuugKoYhowhuBhuX
  
Volkswagen lawyers called the case a quintessential example of cyberpiracy
because they claim Anderson approached the company in 1998 with an offer to
sell the domain, giving them 24-hour notice before putting the address up for
bid. 

"He took one of the most famous trademark names in the world and tried to
extort money out of the trademark holder for the use of its own mark," said
Gregory Phillips of the Salt Lake City law firm Howard Phillips & Andersen. 

 In hotly disputed domain name cases, small firms had been enjoying court
victories as one judge after another refused to give companies with well-known
trademarks automatic rights on the Net. But that all ended during the past
several months, partly because of new legislation making it unlawful to buy
Web addresses using a famous mark in bad faith. 
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Mr. VW.net forgot to mention these facts. Looks like a clear case of
cyberpirating now.

Das Kaptain

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