Bucknuts is threatening to sue me...

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Mar 6, 2010 11:11pm
GoChiefs wrote: Love it! How much is it? I'll contribute to that one if u want it LOL
LJ shot me over $11 to cover one of the two I bought earlier today.

We could have a bunch of different domains that point to the domain we actually use. :)
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Mar 6, 2010 11:12pm
Trueblue23 wrote: Also Justin, I'm sorry if I contributed to this with my bombarding them during the switch over. Let me know if I can do ANYTHING to help man.
No sweat. Nothing in the letter mentioned anything about the bombings so I am not worried about that.
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Mar 6, 2010 11:18pm
So basically what are they threatening??
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Mar 6, 2010 11:19pm
Aight..just sent some over ur way myself.
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Mar 6, 2010 11:21pm
Trueblue23 wrote: So basically what are they threatening??
Check the attachment in post #4 for more details about why they sent the letter. They are giving me 10 days to change the name before pursuing legal action.
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Mar 6, 2010 11:27pm
So will the name of the site now be Serious Business?
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Mar 6, 2010 11:47pm
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Mar 6, 2010 11:52pm
Awesome
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Mar 6, 2010 11:55pm
haha...sweet.

I still cant get over what complete bullshit this is though. They got their asses whooped, now they are being little cunts about it. I really hope that site is eliminated now...fuckin douchebags.
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Fab1b
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Mar 6, 2010 11:59pm
it is bullshit
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Mar 7, 2010 12:00am
So..what is the 'official' new address gonna be? lol
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Mar 7, 2010 12:06am
Otrap thinks that after JJHuddle goes under, Justin should purchase the domain name haha
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Mar 7, 2010 12:07am
GoChiefs wrote: So..what is the 'official' new address gonna be? lol
I am going to point all domains to thisforumisseriousbusiness.com for now.
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Mar 7, 2010 12:35am
wes_mantooth wrote: haha...sweet.

I still cant get over what complete bullshit this is though. They got their asses whooped, now they are being little cunts about it. I really hope that site is eliminated now...fuckin douchebags.
This. If I still had any respect for them (which I did, as whether it was just to get people signed up, I thought it was a cool gesture to donate a portion of the membership fee to that kid...not cool enough to do so, but cool, anyway), it's gone now.

If you look at Alexa, they've fallen in the 3-month meter from 70+K to the mid-200K region. In the 1-month meter, they're well over 300K. They may have dipped below 100K during slow times in high school sports, but never fallen this far. They're scared our little site (currently 1M+ on Alexa) has ruined them, so they're trying to scare us into stopping so everyone goes back there.

Just shows how they have no perspective on reality. The only reason this site exists is because they implemented a yearly membership fee with next-to-no-warning and showed horrible communication skills when people questioned/objected to it. So instead of admitting they screwed up, they're playing hardass with the little engine that could. I hope they crash and burn.
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Mar 7, 2010 11:45am
In having drinks with a lawyer buddy of mine last night, I was just asking questions but never mentioned the site, he thinks adding more subforums that the othersite doesn't have would help distinguish that we aren't stealing their shit and that we are just doing our own thing.
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Mar 7, 2010 12:27pm
LJ wrote: In having drinks with a lawyer buddy of mine last night, I was just asking questions but never mentioned the site, he thinks adding more subforums that the othersite doesn't have would help distinguish that we aren't stealing their shit and that we are just doing our own thing.
That's the problem, though. No one seems to know for sure and I am not willing to drain my savings accounts to find out.
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Mar 7, 2010 12:31pm
justincredible wrote:
LJ wrote: In having drinks with a lawyer buddy of mine last night, I was just asking questions but never mentioned the site, he thinks adding more subforums that the othersite doesn't have would help distinguish that we aren't stealing their shit and that we are just doing our own thing.
That's the problem, though. No one seems to know for sure and I am not willing to drain my savings accounts to find out.
Well, I didn't even give him all the details. He just said it as a way to distinguish from being a sports dominate site to a general site.
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fan_from_texas
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Mar 7, 2010 2:16pm
justincredible wrote:
LJ wrote: In having drinks with a lawyer buddy of mine last night, I was just asking questions but never mentioned the site, he thinks adding more subforums that the othersite doesn't have would help distinguish that we aren't stealing their shit and that we are just doing our own thing.
That's the problem, though. No one seems to know for sure and I am not willing to drain my savings accounts to find out.
Exactly.

As an added note, the information discussed in this moderator discussion forum may eventually be discoverable (i.e. read by the other side in litigation), and it might be worthwhile to move the discussion to phones, rather than posting it here. Just a thought, in case anything comes of this.
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Mar 7, 2010 2:51pm
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Mar 7, 2010 2:53pm
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Mar 7, 2010 6:01pm
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Mar 7, 2010 10:42pm
I would rather have www.mangoldisgod.com
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Mar 7, 2010 10:57pm
I still think my idea will work, Justin :)
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Mar 7, 2010 11:00pm
sej wrote: I still think my idea will work, Justin :)
I did enjoy your idea.
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Mar 7, 2010 11:25pm
http://www.ohioforums.com is available. For $1999. :(