snowfox121 - 12:39 am on Mar 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

Big dollars and squeamish magistrates make for poor justice.

Here in Canada we have a furniture-mega-chain-store we'll call "widget bargain warehouse." It legally pushed a small one-store family furniture business out of its legitimate name, "widget furnishings," even though the name of the family was "widget" and the business had been operating 20 years longer than "widget bargain warehouse."

This is what you can do if you have the big dollar lawyers.

Like most others, I think cyber-squatting is a tricky business and you may end up getting what you deserve . . . nothing.

On the other hand, I refuse to blindly celebrate the squashing of little people doing legitimate business just because someone bigger with more expensive lawyers comes along. Gives me the shudders.