My sex.com. No, MY sex.com!

A tug of URL has recently been contested in the US over just who owns the ever popular sex.com domain name, and it's full of as much drama and deceit as you could possibly want. Originally, the domain name was legitimately purchased and own by Gary

A tug of URL has recently been contested in the US over just who owns the ever popular sex.com domain name, and it's full of as much drama and deceit as you could possibly want. Originally, the domain name was legitimately purchased and own by Gary Kremen in 1994, who promptly sat back and basked in the glory owning such a URL, but who didn't do anything with it. Perhaps he hated pornography, and felt that he was striking a blow for conservative values by letting the site hang in the vacuum.

A year later, however, Stephen Cohen forged himself a set of domain name registrar documents. Cohen then went on the develop the site into a $US60,000 a month revenue stream, scoring up to 25 million hits a day. Surely, this is what such a site was meant to do?

Ragardless, US District Judge James Ware has just awarded Kremen $US65 million in damages over the domain theft, and ordered the site returned to its rightful owner. Cohen has fled to Mexico, his money safe for the moment in offshore bank accounts.

This just seems to me another example of the US Justice system failing to understand the Web. Surely, sex.com was meant to be a profitable pr0n site, offering tasteless shots of women with bad boob jobs to all. Stephen Cohen is not the criminal here, he was merely allowing the domain to fulfill its potential - it's Kremen who should be indicted, for suppressing the domain's right to make money and show booty. My heart goes out to Cohen - pr0n just wants to be free. For a reasonable price.
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