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| (...) Wow...I just finished reading the thread in the BrickBay forum...what utter nonesense. A suggestion was made to register displeasure with eBay over this issue, and I agree. An organized boycott (another suggestion) would likely do a world of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Ever since I first heard of Brickbay I have been wondering why this hasn't happened sooner. It's so obvious that if there was no eBay, BrickBay would never have been called that. It's clearly a trademark violation. But as I posted on the forum (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| You know, I must just have not been paying attention. I never even thought of the association there, the fact that they both end in "Bay". Seems to me like this case being the same as the one where McDonalds sued a small Irish pub in Dublin for (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| (...) Maybe the Hudson's Bay Company of Canada should look into asking eBay to change it's name. After all I think they were the frist to use the term "Bay" since they started in the late 16th Century :) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| sad sad sad, once this transition into the REAL information age is over, the whole concept of copyright will be gone... ...but until then, the bullies can sue as they like. -p (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| (...) I just sent off a message to eBay... To whom it may concern, As a concerned person of the internet community, I was most displeased when I read about your recent 'infringement suit' against another web site called BrickBay. Your legal (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| (...) My interpretation of BrickBay is as follows: 'bay' is synonymous with 'area' Therefore BrickBay is interpreted as 'brick area.' This makes sense as far as describing the site. Similarly, eBay, assuming the 'e' stands for 'electronic' as in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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