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URLs Aren't Property?
"A judge ruled in a lawsuit about the alleged illegal transfer of the domain name 'sex.com' that URLs do not qualify as property, at least under current law." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/27/2149230.shtml
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Eminent Domain Name
"In a federal court in San Diego on Feb. 3, attorneys for Kremen and Cohen faced off again in one of the Internet's longest and most lurid lawsuits." By Jon Swartz. [Forbes]
http://www.forbes.com/2000/02/07/feat.html
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Sex.com Sells (When It's Not Stolen)
News of the judgment against Stephen Cohen, with discussion forum. [Plastic]
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/05/1535214&mode=thread
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The Sordid Tale of Sex.com
"Case puts most bizarre domain name back in the spotlight." By David Lawlor. [CNN Money]
http://money.cnn.com/2001/03/06/sbrunning/biz_sex/
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Net Closes on the Thief of Sex.com
"Everybody wants a piece of the action. Sex.com, the most sought-after address on the world wide web, is at the centre of a remarkable legal dispute involving a fugitive porn baron, betrayed business partners and billions of pounds in potential prof
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4150022,00.html
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Former Sex.com Owner Claims Poverty, Slavery
News and discussion forum. [Techdirt]
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020130/103204_F.shtml
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Sex Site Squatter Fined $65M
"A man who paid $1,000 for the sex.com domain name wins $65m after an online pornographer is found guilty of hijacking the site." [BBC]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1261930.stm
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Holding on Property Status of Domain Names is Bad News for NSI
"The 9th held last Friday that a domain name registrant may sue a registrar, NSI, for conversion of the registrant’s domain name." [iBusiness Law]
http://ibusinesslaw.info/index.php?p=23&more=1#more23
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Sex.com: A Chapter of Prurient Jurisprudence Closes
"San Jose U.S. District Court Judge James Ware ruled in favor of Kremen this week, finding that one Stephen Michael Cohen was guilty of fraudulently hi-jacking the sultry site and ultimately turning it into a multi-million dollar gig." [Interne
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/520901
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Yahoo Battles sex.com over Link
"Yahoo Inc., which is trying to distance itself from adult-oriented merchandise and advertising, has landed in another sex skirmish." [Wall Street Journal]
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-530578.html
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