[117075] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Beware: a very bad precedent set
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Mon Aug 31 17:56:26 2009
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: "nanog@wbsconnect.com" <nanog@wbsconnect.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:55:12 -0400
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that is so sad.... makes me very angry reading this.
-g
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From: nanog@wbsconnect.com [nanog@wbsconnect.com]
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:35 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Beware: a very bad precedent set
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. (=93Louis Vuitton=
=94) part of LVMH, the world=92s leading luxury group, today announced that=
it has won the lawsuit it filed in 2007 against the California based Inter=
net hosting business of Akanoc Solutions, Inc., Managed Solutions Group, In=
c., and Steven Chen (the =93Akanoc Defendants=94) in the United States Dist=
rict Court, Northern District of California (San Jose). On August 28th, the=
jury found the Akanoc Defendants liable for contributory trademark and cop=
yright infringement, and awarded statutory damages in the amount of $32,400=
,000.00. The court is expected shortly to issue a permanent injunction bann=
ing the Akanoc Defendants from hosting websites that sell counterfeit or in=
fringing 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.
