Slipknot have filed a lawsuit towards an alleged cybersquatter who’s been utilizing the URL slipknot.com to promote counterfeit merchandise for almost a quarter-century, Billboard studies.
The masked metallic veterans filed their lawsuit final Wednesday, claiming that an nameless net operator has been undermining them by holding the slipknot.com area since 2001. Slipknot, in flip, have needed to host their webstore on slipknot1.com.
What We Know Concerning the Slipknot Cybersquatter
There’s not a lot data accessible in regards to the alleged cybersquatter. They personal a publish workplace field within the Cayman Islands and launched their web site the identical 12 months that Slipknot launched their platinum-selling sophomore album, Iowa.
“The area identify was registered in an effort to revenue off of plaintiff’s goodwill and to trick unsuspecting guests — underneath the impression they’re visiting a web site owned, operated or affiliated with plaintiff — into clicking on net searches and different sponsored hyperlinks,” Slipknot lawyer Craig Reilly wrote.
He continued: “A fan of plaintiff or somebody who in any other case wished to buy licensed Slipknot merchandise would undoubtedly go to the slipknot.com web site assuming it belonged to plaintiff after which buy the slipknot merchandise linked to on the location, inflicting damages to plaintiff.”
What Sort of Counterfeit Objects Are Bought on Slipknot.com?
The phony slipknot.com web site is objectively bare-bones (and ugly). The primary web page directs customers to click on on varied hyperlinks together with “Slipknot Get This,” “Better of Slipknot” and, after all, “Costume Masks.”
Slipknot declare of their lawsuit that the location leads customers to purchase counterfeit variations of the band’s signature masks, t-shirts, sweatshirts and extra, thus hurting their official merch gross sales.
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The band’s lawsuit invokes the Anticybersquatting Shopper Safety Act of 1999, which is designed to thwart such cybersquatters from registering and profiting off domains which can be similar or confusingly just like registered emblems.
We knew Slipknot sang “Folks = Shit,” however who knew they have been speaking about such nefarious on-line evildoers?
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