[thelist] Re: [Admin] etoy or etoys

What do you all think of the spat(ahem) between etoys.com and etoy.com?

If you're not up to date, you should be. This has major ramifications
for the future of the Internet.

http://www.villagevoice.com:80/issues/9948/barliant.shtml
http://www.salonmagazine.com:80/tech/log/1999/11/30/etoys/index.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/01/2156208&mode=thread

I am truly suprise that a great deal of people aren't outraged at what
is going on. 

Further, I think it would make a bold statement to the corprate types
out there that this is just plain wrong. We as a community of Internet
profesionals have a powerful voice, and an obligation to voice our
opinion on this..

Thoughts?

.djc.

"Daniel J. Cody" wrote:
> 
> aardvark wrote:
> 
> > I'll spare you the arguments on why your lawsuit, and even your argument, is
> > absurd.  I can, however, assure you that any e-business that demonstrates such a
> > litigious attitude as well as a complete disregard for the medium which allows
> > it to exist will not benefit from my business.
> 
> My thoughts exactly. I was actually planning on buying things for my
> neices/nephews fom etoys, but wont now.
> 
> Maybe we shoud call for a boycott of etoys.com in the same way yahoo got
> boycotted a couple months ago for their geocities fiasco. Sure it would
> only be us, but at least we're making a statement.
> 
> .djc.
> 
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