[117073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Beware: a very bad precedent set
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nanog@wbsconnect.com)
Mon Aug 31 17:39:48 2009
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:35:44 -0600 (MDT)
From: nanog@wbsconnect.com
To: nanog@nanog.org
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Louis-Vuitton-Awarded-324-bw-3561952192.html?=
x=3D0&.v=3D1
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. (=E2=80=9CLouis Vu=
itton=E2=80=9D) part of LVMH, the world=E2=80=99s leading luxury group, tod=
ay announced that it has won the lawsuit it filed in 2007 against the Calif=
ornia based Internet hosting business of Akanoc Solutions, Inc., Managed So=
lutions Group, Inc., and Steven Chen (the =E2=80=9CAkanoc Defendants=E2=80=
=9D) in the United States District Court, Northern District of California (=
San Jose). On August 28th, the jury found the Akanoc Defendants liable for =
contributory trademark and copyright infringement, and awarded statutory da=
mages in the amount of $32,400,000.00. The court is expected shortly to iss=
ue a permanent injunction banning the Akanoc Defendants from hosting websit=
es that sell counterfeit or infringing Louis Vuitton goods.
Any and all nefarious activity alleged in this lawsuit was conducted by a c=
ustomer, of a customer, of a customer yet the hosting provider was found li=
able, not the actual criminal manufacturing and selling the fakes.
We had all better watch our backs since it seems that claims of not being a=
ble to inspected tens of millions of packets per second is no longer a viab=
le excuse.
