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[–] 110 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh. This isn’t some dirtbag domain squatter, either. This is a ten year old company with a serious, legitimate claim. Plus, their services are easily similar enough to create marketplace confusion, which is a major factor in trademark cases.

This doesn’t help, either:

It appears that Meta was aware of Threads before launching its platform of the same name. Company lawyers made four offers to purchase the domain 'threads.app' from Threads Software Ltd from April 2023, all of which were declined.

Zuck fucked up.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    He didn't "fuck up" so much as think he was big enough to bully the legal issue away.

    They did it with the word "meta" here's hoping they don't get away with it a second time.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Like others have said, the Zuck probably thinks he can lawyer his way through it. He could try to bleed the company dry over a long set of proceedings, hoping they decide to settle, somehow.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My favorite trademark story is how McDonald's lost the rights to the name Big Mac in Ireland due to an existing trademark

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not just Ireland, southern Ireland is EU so they lost it in the whole of Europe

    The BK near me was offering King Macs for a while just to take the piss

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Clearly he should rename threads to Z.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    You love to see it. Get fucked Zucky!

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Let's just hope the judge is not an idiot.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I can confirm that the 1984 Threads movie is pretty traumatizing. Not in a horror movie kind of way, in a "this is realistically what would happen in and after a nuclear war, which is the end of everything in the worst way you can imagine" kinda way.

    It's on youtube.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It gave me a chuckle that they slotted that into the article!

    IMDB even has a listing for "woman who urinates herself" when the bomb drops.

    I always remember the last scenes when the main protagonists daughter tries to wake her "RUTH! RUTH!".

    I've got it downloaded but haven't watched it since the 80s as it's part of my childhood trauma so might take a bit of unpacking!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I only saw parts of it… but yeah, it’s plenty messed up. What’s even worse is that it’s not messed up in an exploitative way, though. Like you said, it’s horrible because a nuclear war would be horrible. The people who were unlucky enough to survive would be absolutely brutal to one another.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It's the antithesis of all the gung-ho apocalyptic films that has all the alpha males wanking off about they would survive & become a leader.

    I watched it when it was broadcast & the conversation at school for weeks after was how no-one of us wanted to survive the blast because of how fucking horrific and what a curse it would be!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So, just like what happened with "Meta"...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Facebook and the Zuck commonly taking an L

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for sharing, I hope they stand their ground and will definitely will keep an eye on this one. LOL

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The name and the logo remind me of the parasitic worm.

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