Without public pressure, none of these cases will be resolved except in

Censorship Resistant Publishing System live trial call for volunteers!

court--if the defendants can muster the financial and psychological strength to keep their identities alive. And that's a very big if.

New World Coffee tries but fails to silence its critics

In Germany, a leech attacks everyone

HMO Health Net attacks HealthNet.org

DVD Copyright Control Association attacks competing technologies OpenDVD.org DVD Source Code Distribution Contest (balloon) DeCSS Central Become a John Doe CNN coverage Mercury News article 2600.com Slashdot discussion Wired links

PlanSoft.com attacks PlanSuck.com

Leonardo Finance attacks Leonardo magazine

Blueyonder.co.uk sort of accidentally attacks Blueyonder.com--then decides they really want it

Nissan attacks Mr. Nissan

Mattel attacks Matt Lavallee (Matt L.)

The parents of Jean-Michel Basquiat destroy a site about their son

CBS News attacks Evolution Control Committee

KidStyle attacks KidStyle-NYC

Volkswagen (of slave-labor fame) destroys ISP VW.net

JVISION weirdness

American Airlines attacks Ashcraft

Aetna Insurance succesfully closes down AetnaInsurance.com (a website critical of them)

Aetna U.S. Health Care succesfully closes down AetnaUSHealthCare.com (a website critical of them)

Mattel makes some crazy pseudo-random threats

Coca Cola attacks some senior citizens (site)
Feb. 9: Coca-Cola sees the light (and the spotlight in their future)

A peanut butter giant attacks a 75-year-old cartoon (info here and here)

Autodesk, Inc. attacks The3DStudio.com
Feb. 8: Autodesk withdraws threat!

JCrew steals JKrew and won't give it back
Jan. 25: J Crew relinquishes JKrew.com!

Fox Agency destroys Lyrics.ch

Reel.com attacks ReelUniverse.com

LA City Attorney attacks LAPD.org

Wall Street Journal attacks Small Street Journal

Gannett attacks SpaceNews.org

ToysRUs attacks Roadkills-R-Us

Ford Motor Co. attacks BlueOvalNews.com

E-Stamp attacks EStamps

Hasbro attacks Clue Computing

The Holy See swipes vaticano.org

PETA attacks PETA

More links here and here.

See also The Domain Name Rights Coalition

The Domain Defense Advocate undertakes coordinated letter-writing campaigns to help defend threatened domains--such as theirs was in 1998, by Colgate-Palmolive.

Lawyers: of course these cases are all flimsy and hardly based on law, but see this case and this one too for possible precedent.

See also this article about an attempt to make linking to "illegal" sites illegal.

And another in the "hunh?" category: at least one corporation has gone after an individual for naming a directory with the corporation's trademarked name.... Wait! That's not all! Now someone has been forced to rename a gif!