If an incorporated company thats hosts images forgets to renew theirname.com , and I register it and the next day put up a site similar to it and say "sorry we got hacked" to pretend thats why the databases are missing, is this illegal? my friend thinks this is legal another example, ford forgets to renew. we set up a site selling our brand of cars and say "sorry we got hacked"... can we be sued and loose Even if we do not mention their names "ford" or "sitename" but we do on the first one, host images related to the same subject as their site was
Anything trademark related you can be sued, and to be honest with you it is not worth wasting time to play around with people who have unlimited budget for legal services . I tried it, did not work for me stojan
in civil cases mostly it boils down to intent if they can prove you willfully inteneded to harm them then you lose.
Once you would try to make a penny out of it, they have a proof. So it is kind of non sense to try it , unless you do it for the heck of it, which means you have way too much time to waste stojan
Yes, but when you claim "sorry we got hacked" then your doing it in bad-faith to harm him, because your claiming to previous viewers that the site has been hacked and that the database is lost. My friend says that we could say "we got hacked" is our tradmark and there is not way to prove otherwise? I'm not talking about just backordering a domain, im talking about adding a line that says "we got hacked" after stealing his site and image hosting genre
That's real nice of you. The intent is clear - you are trying to pass yourself off as the Trademark holder - end of story legally-speaking. Not only would you, and could you, be sued by the Trademark holder - a case you would lose because you tried to pass yourself off as the Trademark holder - but you would find yourself in very murky and very deep waters criminally-speaking if you attempted in any way, shape or form, to entice any visitors to that site to provide you with information of any kind. IMHO of course.
No, I would not do it because of the moral aspect in the first place. I know this guy who now owns it aquired the site for a million+. We thought the domain expired, and checked it, but it really had not. So we got to talking about if we had registered the domain. I just feel that if we registered his domain, put up a picture post similar to his in the same genre, that would be illegal enough. Then claiming that "we got hacked" (even if thats was our "legal" slogan) we would for sure be sued and loose big time.