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posted by Jym on January 10 2004 14:26

=v= Back when the web was young, the peta.org domain was snapped up by an individual who set up a "People Eating Tasty Animals" website. P.E.T.A. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) invoked trademark law and now owns the domain.

Payback time: in the wake of Mad Cow Disease hitting these shores again, P.E.T.A. has set up BEEF.com to suggest one way to avoid it. This is easily confusable with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's BEEF.org, and while they might reasonably be said to have a beef with PETA, they don't have a trademark issue. (BEEF.com is only up for a limited time, though. The domain's owner is holding out for a higher bidder before giving it up permanently.)

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