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    My battle with the Seminole Indians

    Part 1.

    I mentioned a while ago how the Seminole Indians were threatening me, but I never ended up telling the story (after saying that I would). Well, I guess I will share what happened now that some time has passed and I'm not as bitter about it.

    Some background: For those who don't know, the Seminole Indians control many of the Florida casinos (the biggest being the Tampa Hard Rock and the Hollywood Hard Rock). Last year they introduced a new tournament that they called the 'Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open' with a $10,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and a $5k buy-in. At the time this was the largest guaranteed prize pool for any live tournament. Obviously they wanted this to become a flagship tournament series, second only to the WSOP.

    When I first heard the name of the series 'Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open', I laughed at the name they came up with. It was overly long and generic. Of course it seemed obvious that they would shorten it to SHRPO. I used to be involved with the domain name industry, so on a whim I looked up SHRPO.com, expecting it to already be registered. But to my surprise, it was available. Instead they chose to use the name SeminoleHardRockPokerOpen.com to advertise the series.
    :FAIL

    I then did a trademark look-up for SHRPO and found no trademarks for it, only for 'Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open'. So I snap regged the .com and .net versions. Of course I registered these domains with the intention of having them approach me at some point to buy them from me. While I was far from an expert in trademark/cybersquatting law, I knew it was a bad idea to have ads on a site or reference the end-user in any way. So I just put up a very generic page that said "This domain name may be for sale... contact [my email] for inquiries." Eventually I was going to contact them and inform them that I have a domain name that may be of interest to them, but I didn't want to do this right away. I wanted to wait until after next year when the SHRPO 2014 was approaching. That way the brand would be more developed and valuable by then. And sure enough, throughout the tournament series in 2013 they used #SHRPO to tag everything and frequently used SHRPO as short-hand, even though on their official signs they had to advertise the ridiculously long SeminoleHardRockPokerOpen.com.

    Well, the tournament went by in August and I didn't think much of the domain. I just sort of filed it in the back of my mind even though I knew it was a pretty valuable domain name. Side note: I played the SHRPO main event and busted day 1 obv. September and October went by and nothing happened in regards to the domain name. They didn't contact me, and I didn't contact me. I had my registration info public, but I had moved from Orlando to Chicago in that time and didn't update my address. However I had my e-mail up on the homepage so it would still be very easy to contact me.

    Then in November (of 2013) something strange happened. I ordered some food from Grubhub to be picked up at a nearby restaurant. I went down to my apartment lobby and fiddled with my phone as I waited for the app to tell me my food was ready for pick up. While doing this, I looked up and saw a tall black guy dressed in a suit standing in my lobby holding a tablet & signature pen and an oversized envelope. I thought it was weird. He looked like he was trying to deliver a package that needed a signature, but he wasn't dressed in a delivery uniform and he was just waiting in the lobby. It also seemed like he was staring at me without being too obvious about it. I thought he was going to say something to me or ask a question, but he never said anything. He was also giving off a 'weird' vibe that I can't quite describe. He actually reminded me of 'Matthew Abaddon' from LOST. I exited my lobby because I was kinda creeped out by the guy and my food was almost ready to be picked up anyway. About a minute after I leave my lobby my phone rings. I look down and my phone says 'buzzer', which basically means that somebody dialed my code on the building buzzer to try to get in to the building (I can buzz people in via my phone). I look across the street at my apartment and sure enough the guy had left my building and was now standing by the buzzer, meaning he dialed my code. WTF. Anyway, I ignored the call and went to go pick up my food. When I came back the guy was gone and I didn't think of it anymore.

    The next day I got a letter in the mail addressed to me from an attorney. I noticed they had already tried sending it to my old address in Florida and it got sent back to them and updating them on my new address. I also received a slip saying I had a parcel to be retrieved from the post office that I had to sign for. Here's what was inside the envelope:
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    The parcel I had to sign for contained the identical letter and nothing more. When I went to pick it up, the post office lady ID'd me. Then after she gets my envelope she says "Wait, I need to see your ID again" and told me that I had to be 18+ to sign for the package. She said it was weird and that she had never seen that before. I was actually relieved to see the same letter in the envelope. I thought it was going to be a court summons since they had sent me the letter several weeks before I received it due to changing addresses, and I was supposed to respond with-in 5 days.

    Anyway, I looked up the trademark for SHRPO again, and sure enough the Seminole's had a pending trademark on it. But they didn't file a request for the trademark until several months AFTER I had already registered SHRPO.com and .net.


    And I am writing this at 4am and don't feel like finishing the story. So I will make it a multi-part story to add some suspense. Stay tuned for part 2, coming soon.

     
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    itt: poor man's yEBSITE

     
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    So hope you told them to fuck off and got some cash from them. Please please please. That letter is worth about the same as the toilet paper I used to wipe my ass this morning.

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    PLOL is a rich man's Marty.

    Marty runs away to Mexico....PLOL runs to Chicago.

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    Even if they don't have a trademark you are pretty screwed in these cases (assuming the use of name is already well established). Luckily seems like they didn't want anything from you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by simpdog View Post
    PLOL is a rich man's Marty.

    Marty runs away to Mexico....PLOL runs to Chicago.

    Marty wishes he was half as "gifted" as PLOL

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    lol unreal how a thread that has absolutely nothing to do with me somehow warrants two direct mentions from 2 of the biggest fucking gimps on this site

    other than that...

    nice write up PLOL

    looking forward to part 2

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    these butthair swinging neanderthals have to make every thread about you, tyde. :tightlives

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyde View Post
    lol unreal how a thread that has absolutely nothing to do with me somehow warrants two direct mentions from 2 of the biggest fucking gimps on this site

    other than that...

    nice write up PLOL

    looking forward to part 2
    I'm on team Tyde don't worry. It was in jest.

     
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    Can't say I can support the cybersquatting, but I am interested to hear the rest of the story.

    I can't say I feel too sorry for the Seminoles, though, because the whole Indian Gaming thing is an incredibly corrupt industry and has basically become the opposite of what was intended (a way to get Indian tribes out of poverty). Instead they have just enriched a small number of Indians, left the vast majority in the same poverty, and made loads of money for various large gaming companies which "manage" them. At the same time, it shuts out a lot of legitimate competitors who don't make pacts/deals with these tribes. I've read some very eye-opening exposes regarding Indian gaming.

    So bottom line is that I'm still rooting for PLOL in this one, even though in general I hate cybersquatters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BetCheckBet View Post
    Even if they don't have a trademark you are pretty screwed in these cases (assuming the use of name is already well established). Luckily seems like they didn't want anything from you.
    Bullshit. He beat them to the punch, at the time he registered they were not using the acronym at all from what I read in the story. It was only AFTER (way after) he registered, they started using the hashtag on twitter, and really nowhere else. They were still using that long dumbass name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Can't say I can support the cybersquatting, but I am interested to hear the rest of the story.

    I can't say I feel too sorry for the Seminoles, though, because the whole Indian Gaming thing is an incredibly corrupt industry and has basically become the opposite of what was intended (a way to get Indian tribes out of poverty). Instead they have just enriched a small number of Indians, left the vast majority in the same poverty, and made loads of money for various large gaming companies which "manage" them. At the same time, it shuts out a lot of legitimate competitors who don't make pacts/deals with these tribes. I've read some very eye-opening exposes regarding Indian gaming.

    So bottom line is that I'm still rooting for PLOL in this one, even though in general I hate cybersquatters.


    seems like he made every effort to go about it correctly without malicious intent

    imo it's the tribes fault for not snapping up the domain immediately prior to launching the tourney series

    not as if PLOL had any content on the site other than a static page with his email address

    I see nothing wrong with the way he went about acquiring the domain and parking it

    I vote he tells them to fuck off

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyde View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Can't say I can support the cybersquatting, but I am interested to hear the rest of the story.

    I can't say I feel too sorry for the Seminoles, though, because the whole Indian Gaming thing is an incredibly corrupt industry and has basically become the opposite of what was intended (a way to get Indian tribes out of poverty). Instead they have just enriched a small number of Indians, left the vast majority in the same poverty, and made loads of money for various large gaming companies which "manage" them. At the same time, it shuts out a lot of legitimate competitors who don't make pacts/deals with these tribes. I've read some very eye-opening exposes regarding Indian gaming.

    So bottom line is that I'm still rooting for PLOL in this one, even though in general I hate cybersquatters.

    I vote he tells them to fuck off
    How did that go for you in Oregon? Oh yeah, thousands in legal fees and a night in jail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damone View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Tyde View Post


    I vote he tells them to fuck off
    How did that go for you in Oregon? Oh yeah, thousands in legal fees and a night in jail.

    your content is so terrible, unfunny and obsessive on so many levels

    get a new schtick ffs

    lol toilet repairman

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    bottomset stop hijacking the thread with the Tyde trolling. I don't want every thread to degenerate into this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    bottomset stop hijacking the thread with the Tyde trolling. I don't want every thread to degenerate into this.

    this is his new routine (and 90% of the 'content' he posts)

    I don't mind trolling once in a while, but this clown is off the charts

    I think he's started no less than 20-30 threads about me from his dozen or so dupe accounts

    not exactly an isolated instance either, it's just getting absurd at this point

    so Bottomset...you heard the man

    STFU and focus on the more important things in your life....like cleaning toilets and being a total mongoloid

    thanks for putting this retard in check Todd

    and PLOL sorry for the thread hijack

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyde View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    bottomset stop hijacking the thread with the Tyde trolling. I don't want every thread to degenerate into this.

    this is his new routine (and 90% of the 'content' he posts)

    I don't mind trolling once in a while, but this clown is off the charts

    I think he's started no less than 20-30 threads about me from his dozen or so dupe accounts

    not exactly an isolated instance either, it's just getting absurd at this point

    so Bottomset...you heard the man

    STFU and focus on the more important things in your life....like cleaning toilets and being a total mongoloid

    thanks for putting this retard in check Todd

    and PLOL sorry for the thread hijack
    This coming from the poster "Bottomset's Vomit Bucket" and endless tard pictures? You are the biggest troll on the planet. Funny, you were trolling Druff a few months ago with Bob Freebie on 4. Now you are a beacon on civility. AMIRITE?

    No offense Druff, but Jewdonk giving advice to tell people to 'fuck off' is laughable, especially when they are facing a lawsuit. He has done that most of his adult life and look how it has done for him. I mean, the latest episode in Oregon is just sad, telling people he does not know they are child molesters and ranting like a maniac when the cops pulled over a habitual drunk driver.

    If he had just kept his mouth shut the DUI would have been tossed. But he basically told the cops to 'fuck off' and ranted, which is why his advice to PLOL just ridiculous when facing a lawsuit.

    Now getting back on track PLOL needs to rescind his domain because it is squatting. If not, he is going to get broke real quick with attorney fees, like someone else in this thread who challenged authority and lost (badly I might add).

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyde View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    bottomset stop hijacking the thread with the Tyde trolling. I don't want every thread to degenerate into this.

    this is his new routine (and 90% of the 'content' he posts)

    I don't mind trolling once in a while, but this clown is off the charts

    I think he's started no less than 20-30 threads about me from his dozen or so dupe accounts

    not exactly an isolated instance either, it's just getting absurd at this point

    so Bottomset...you heard the man

    STFU and focus on the more important things in your life....like cleaning toilets and being a total mongoloid

    thanks for putting this retard in check Todd

    and PLOL sorry for the thread hijack

    It's always obvious it's him too. He should at least throw us a change up once in a while.

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    I want to see the rest of this story, and I don't want this thread to turn into garbage.

    Any more bottomset trolling of Marty in this thread will be deleted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Can't say I can support the cybersquatting, but I am interested to hear the rest of the story.

    I can't say I feel too sorry for the Seminoles, though, because the whole Indian Gaming thing is an incredibly corrupt industry and has basically become the opposite of what was intended (a way to get Indian tribes out of poverty). Instead they have just enriched a small number of Indians, left the vast majority in the same poverty, and made loads of money for various large gaming companies which "manage" them. At the same time, it shuts out a lot of legitimate competitors who don't make pacts/deals with these tribes. I've read some very eye-opening exposes regarding Indian gaming.

    So bottom line is that I'm still rooting for PLOL in this one, even though in general I hate cybersquatters.
    Just read the casino jack story. The best part how they got the Ralph reed Christian coalition guy to start anti casino efforts in the name of religion. Of course he was just being paid by competing Indian casino to keep the competition out.

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