• falseWhite@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Stupid greedy asshole got what he deserved. Could have made bank by selling it for 1 million already. But the greed rulebook said to keep raising it to 75 million.

    Fuck Lamborghini too.

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        3 hours ago

        He bought the domain for $10000. Not sure what your definition of poor is, but in my opinion someone poor isn’t “investing” in expensive domain names.

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        9 hours ago

        Eventually the precedent would just become ‘poor people’ fucking over everyone, including other ‘poor people’ just trying to start their own business. I get what you’re saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer

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        11 hours ago

        Is that what you call scalpers, scammers and thieves, “the poor”? I agree that in most cases they are poor, but they are also assholes that deserve it.

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      1 day ago

      He raised the price higher than the cost of going to WIPO to deal with it. If he set the price to $1 or 2 million they likely would have paid it. $75 million is bonkers.

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        He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone.