Saturday, May 4, 2013

Facebook wins fight site entrapment

Facebook wins fight site entrapment
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CALIFORNIA - Facebook some time ago seeks to fight the site "typosquatters" which utilizes the word "Facebook" to trap internet users with domain names such as "gacebook" and "dacebook". The latest, a court in district California won the Facebook in case fight the site "typosquatters" it.

"Typosquatters" is a name for a company or individual who buys a domain name such as "gacebook" or "dacebook" with the hope Facebook users that wrong the typewrite will visit her site. Did not even infrequently sites "typosquatters" it is a dangerous site.

Based on the court's decision, 100 domains that found guilty must pay compensation worth $ 2, 8 million into Facebook.

"We are very happy with the court's decision. We will continue to use all tools that we had for fight against parties who try to take advantage of the people who use our services," said Facebook general counsel, Craig Clark.

Facebook has an important history in the wiping out site "typosquatters" and previously ever succeed to get hundreds of domains.

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