Aw, how cute and charming. Ms. Yanofsky is president of ProChoice Resource Center, a nonprofit group in Port Chester, N.Y., that provides information about birth control and abortion rights activism at Prochoiceresource.org, its Web site. Last month she discovered that mistakenly typing ".com" instead of the ".org" at the end of her organization's name redirected her, and anyone else who made that simple mistake, to Abortionismurder.org, a Web site that displays photos of mutilated fetuses and compares those who support abortion rights to Nazis.
It will be interesting to see how this goes. Seems to me that it's got some intersection with the whole The wind done gone mess, in that if that can be protected as a commentary and parody exception, than this can be protected as a commentary and political speech exception.
Leaving aside, of course, that he's already offered to surrender the domain for money. Both the courts and the WIPO tend to take a dim view of such things.
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12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!