UN agency gives 20th Century Fox web address to 'The Simpsons Movie'

Yahoo! Canada ^ | Jul 25, 2007

[hedgetrimmer]

Fox had taken the route to sue for the name and damages
in US courts and not relying on an international tribunal that promotes the globalist notion that American citizens are beholden to foreign interests, no one would have blinked an eye.

[hedgetrimmer]

You know the sad thing is, how many Americans are selling out to anti-American internationalist institutions.

[1rudeboy]

Funny story: yesterday I met a very attractive South Korean girl (actually, at the age of 26 she isn't a "girl" any longer, but at my age she is). I asked her what brought her to Chicago and she replied, "I'm just visiting some friends while on my way to a U.N. conference in New York."

"Really? Do you work for the U.N.?"
"No. I work for a NGO."
"Which one?" [If she had said WIPO I would've fallen-over right there].

She named one that I have never heard of . . . the funny thing is that the moment she said NGO I thought of hedgetrimmer.

Do you think it's possible that hedge and I are meant to be together?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Do you think it's possible that hedge and I are meant to be together?

Thanks, I didn't feel like eating lunch today.

When you get a chance, check out your Freepmail.

[1rudeboy]

I still haven’t opened my FRmail since before Grizzled Bear (what was that, comment #100 or something?) sent me that nastygram. I’ll get to it some time later.

[squatterssuck]

Ok, so let me ask you this. If it were an American company going up against someone who registered the name in China how would you expect that to be handled?

[hedgetrimmer]

If it were an American company going up against someone who registered the name in China how would you expect that to be handled?

Let's see. The American company would kowtow to the Chinese communists and beg for an opportunity to do business with their country and their billion citizens. They'd consider the registration part of the cost of doing business (apart from giving the chicoms a 50% interest in any companies they build there). LOL

[1rudeboy]

You’ll never get a straight answer.

[squatterssuck]

Hedgetrimmer, you danced around that question so nicely you should be a politician! lol

Seriously, what would YOUR solution be to the problem? People get ripped off all the time by going to websites that abuse a brand they don’t own. From the phishing issues with banks to counterfeit goods to the corporations being ripped off because the site with their name in it is directing people to their competitors sites. In all seriousness what would be your idea to fix this situation?

[hedgetrimmer]

You’ll never get a straight answer.

That WAS a straight answer. It is exactly what companies are doing over there. How else can you explain why microsoft os software is hundreds of dollars in price here, but 3 dollars in China?

[1rudeboy]

No it WAS NOT a straight answer. The question was, what would you, as an American, do if someone from China violated your property rights in such a fashion? I believe I asked you (or someone else who tapdances) this question on this thread weeks ago.

[1rudeboy]

Never bought a product in China. I don’t even buy Chinese products in the U.S., and I haven’t since Tiananmen. When was that, 1989?

[mysterio]

You know the sad thing is, how many Americans are selling out to anti-American internationalist institutions.

And how cheaply they are bought.

[1rudeboy]

Updated list of answers to my question #20, for those of you keeping score out there in FReeperland--how does the X family enforce its U.S. injunction against Larry? (with the "tilt" indicated in parentheses):

1. shoot the bastard (isolationist),
2. ignore him (isolationist),
3. have Belarus enforce the injunction (globalist), and
4. pre-emptively register the offending domain name in every nation on Earth (isolationist).

[1rudeboy]

Never bought a product in China. I don’t even buy Chinese products in the U.S., and I haven’t since Tiananmen.

That's not quite true. I plan to eat at China Buffet today, as its Friday menu is excellent and I'm hungry.

[hedgetrimmer]

Yes it was. It is the same answer as why China gets Microsoft OS for $3 and US citizens in America pay hundreds of dollars.

[squatterssuck]

Ok, you’re not getting my question apparently. Let’s phrase it differently. What system would you personally like to see put in place to protect internet users in generally from being duped by fake websites? If say a squatter in the UK registered a website with a name that belongs to a US bank and directed people there with the sole intent to steal their information, what system would you have in place to correct that? Or would you just they have every right to dupe people and steal their identity?

[hedgetrimmer]

Shouldn’t that be the XXX family given their proclivity for using naked children in their products?

[hedgetrimmer]

I wonder what happened in the good old days, when a person from the UK sent a letter to an American citizen on forged bank letter head with the sole intent of stealing something from them?

[squatterssuck]

They left the banking for the internet and the letters for the Canadian lottery.