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2600 Magazine registered fuckgeneralmotors.com, and pointed it to Ford Motor Company's ford.com. Ironically, though General Motors only made legal threats, it was Ford Motor Company that took 2600 to court.

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• 2600 Linking Victory Appealed By Ford

  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/31/2119213
  "2600 Victory in the ford case has been appealed by Ford." News and discussion forum. [Slashdot]

• 2600 Magazine Defeats Ford

  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/28/1257205
  News of Ford conceding case and reader discussion. [Slashdot]

• 2600 v. Ford Motors

  http://slashdot.org/yro/01/05/18/1421201.shtml
  News and discussion forum about New York Times article. [Slashdot]

• 2600.com Wins Dismissal in F**k-generalmotors.com Lawsuit

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/03/2600_com_wins_dismissal/
  "A landmark triumph for Sophomoric humor." By Thomas C. Greene. [Register]

• Ford Loses 2600 Lawsuit

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/29/ford_loses_2600_lawsuit/
  "Online hacker magazine 2600 has emerged victorious in its campaign to retain ownership of the controversial FuckGeneralMotors.com domain." By John Leyden. [Register]

• Ford Really Sucks

  http://www.fordreallysucks.com/
  Information about Ford's reverse domain name hijacking attempts.

• Ford vs. 2600 Judge Upholds Right To Link

  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/23/1342231
  "Judge Cleland rejected Ford's twisted interpretation of the trademark act, which claimed 2600 was in violation of trademark law by redirecting a possibly offensive domain to Ford's site." News and reader comments. [Slashdot]

• How Many Legal Threats Can We Get This Year?

  http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=11
  "This time, General Motors found out that we had registered fuckgeneralmotors.com and they are demanding that we turn it over to them at once." Includes scanned image of letter from GM. [2600]

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