Craigslist shuts down Craigspimp
 

With the recent news of Craigslist shutting down their adult services I went to check to see how our fellow gfy moron running his Craigslist spamming operation was doing. http://www.craigspimp.com

Was that Eddie Temple (MatrixFactor) ? If so he owed me money that I wrote off.

bahahhaa

owned.

Yes it was, he owed many people money and had the gall to keep coming back here trying to recruit new spammers. Even when Craigslist finally took legal action against him, he scoffed at it as if he was untouchable living in Canada.

Glad to see Karma was in action.

Interesting way to close a site...

WHOIS shows that Eddie Temple still appears to be the owner, but the redirect makes it look like craigslist owned him.

It's odd how a part of the name is copyrighted, not even the whole name.
"Craigs" from craigslist is copyrighted and "book" from facebook is copyrighted.
What's going to happen next? "Mc" from Mcdonalds will be copyrighted?

Hmmm, you have a point, I noticed that too. After doing some searches it appears this took place a few months back. http://craigslistscammers.com/blog/?p=424

His blog hasn't been updated since last fall www.eddietemple.com and his forum is dead www.shadydollars.com

Here is the legal filing for copyright infringement, but can't seem to find what the outcome was. Maybe he finally just redirected it and caved in, even though he seemed to spout off that they had no case. http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuit.asp?id=50951

yeah, that has been down for some time now

It's not copyright, it's trademark violations. The term "Craigslist" is a registered trademark and cannot be used in commerce without the permission of the owner.


US Patent and Trademark search clearly shows it and CL has others as well:

CRAIGSLIST
Goods and Services IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Providing online interactive bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning classified listings and listings for announcements, events, classes, meetings, activities, housing, real estate, roommates, rentals, for sale advertisements, want ads, employment, resumes, volunteerism, services, community, personals, politics, family, arts and information on a wide variety of topics of general interest to the public; providing on-line forums and discussion groups for transmission of messages among computer users concerning health, family, arts, politics, leisure, romance, work, and information on a wide variety of topics of general interest to the public; electronic mail services; electronic mail subscription services; and electronic transmission of messages, data and images. FIRST USE: 19950701. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19950701
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 78323732
Filing Date November 5, 2003
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition August 31, 2004
Registration Number 2905107
International Registration Number 0857402
Registration Date November 23, 2004
Owner (REGISTRANT) 1010 Cole Street, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1381 - 9th Avenue San Francisco CALIFORNIA 94117

(LAST LISTED OWNER) CRAIGSLIST, INC. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1381 9TH AVENUE SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 94122
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Attorney of Record Grace Han Stanton
Prior Registrations 2395628;2707749
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR).
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE"


Sally

Then why was this the reason given for the lawsuit : 17:101 Copyright Infringement