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Posted
at 3:18 p.m. PST Wednesday, December 15, 1999
Online toy store under virtual attack from Internet renegades
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP ) -- Online
renegades banned from posting violent and obscene images on their etoy.com
Web site are retaliating against the mainstream Internet toy store eToys.com
that sued them.
Calling for an online sit-in, cyberspace writers at rtmark.com
advocating on behalf of the etoy group said Wednesday that eToys' demonstrated
the intentions of the new net elite: ``to turn the World Wide Web into
their own private home-shopping network,'' when the company sued the European-based
etoy.com.
Last month, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge issued a
preliminary injunction against etoy.com, a group of Europeans, forcing
them to stop using the etoy.com domain, or face a fine of up to US$10,000
per day.
eToys.com sued the etoy.com group in September, claiming that
the prominent Internet commerce Web site needed to protect its brand name
and intellectual property, and ``to reduce the risk that our customers
will be exposed to the hateful rhetoric and obscene images that defendants'
have frequently displayed on their web site. ''
rtmark's Web site on Wednesday said the visitors could click on
links to cripple the eToys servers during the 10 days leading to Christmas,
as well as pages providing detailed financial information about the company
and a page of links to the dozen or so other groups calling for eToys'
downfall.
eToys, based in Santa Monica, Calif., is one of the top online
stores for toys, video games, software, videos, books, music, and baby
products.
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