Sex.com Suing Yahoo After Yahoo Almost Sues Sex.com

from the too-many-lawyers dept

Mon, Aug 27th 2001 10:43am — Mike Masnick

Okay, try to follow the logic of lawyers here. A clueless lawyer at Yahoo noticed that if you typed in yahoo.sex.com you were sent to sex.com (this was a surprise?). She sent a cease-and-desist letter, not realizing that (just like many many sites) if you type in anything.sex.com it goes to sex.com. The article makes a big deal about "wildcard DNS", but you don't even need to understand that to know what's going on here. When this was all explained to Yahoo and their clueless laywers, Yahoo (wisely) backed off. However, that wasn't enough for Sex.com. They're now suing Yahoo back, though it's not exactly clear what for. I could (maybe) understand looking for a summary judgment saying that what sex.com is doing with the wildcard is perfectly legal (which it is). However, instead of that, sex.com seems to want to sue Yahoo.com for completely random things - such as having porn content on their site even though they promised not to. I think lawyers from both sides need to practice gripping reality - because it's apparent that they've gone off into some weird "Sue us?!? We'll sue you!!" land that has no basis in reality.

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Ed, 27 Aug 2001 @ 11:05am

Yahoo cluelessness
It sounds like sex.com lawyers are now spinning out of control, but the initial action by Yahoo really makes me wonder. I can see why the guy who runs *.isgay.com gets lots of threatening letters from clueless people -- that's the whole point of his site. But it bothers me that Yahoo's legal staff is that clueless about the workings of the Internet. Could this be a clear indication that Yahoo does not "get it" any more?
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feroz, 15 Jun 2008 @ 7:15am

fuck
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manik, 18 Mar 2009 @ 3:32am

sex
yes
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Rahul, 8 Apr 2009 @ 1:13am

Sex
Hi,sexy
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efoli ogar eni, 12 May 2012 @ 6:32am

mathematics
Remember now thy creator in d days of thy youth while d evil days come nt nor d yrs drew night when thou shall say i hv no pleasure in them''
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