It's such a conflict - In one way I bet you could get great traffic from that site even if it just forwarded onto an artist's bandcamp or whatever. In another way, what a shameless way to get traffic to a site.
and that's a bad thing.... how again? You swear someone was fucking dead babies or something, lmao.
irrlichtproject wrote:
Ahahaha Mono you old domain squatting grouch I think you should totally keep that domain, no one else is worthy of it
Maybe I should create a parody site and it'd be COMPLETELY legal.
It worked for Dumb Starbucks:
... until Los Angeles County Health Department shut it down. Luckily for h8bitcollective, you don't have to serve any food
Also, cease and desist letters mean squat shit! If you know anything about law, lawyers send that shit out 24/7 like AIDS. It doesn't mean squat shit. They use those to intimidate and scare people. I've done it to sort issues myself. Trust me, it was pure bullshit. Most of the time you can call the bluffs. If they are serious, they will spend all the cash to take a person to court, usually they want to avoid that cuz obviously that cost $$$$. That's what I did with my bullshit cease and desist against someone not too long ago, over a completely unrelated matter.
I or anyone who buys it can just call it h8bitCollective (or any other parody name e.g. Dumb 8bitCollective), claim to be a living breathing art parody and still use the same url (at least to redirect).
And either way, you can use names like ChipMusicCollective, if you want to avoid parodies. 8bitMovement. ChipCollective. 8ChipCollective. SIDCollective. 8CollectiveBit. Bit8Collective. 8GayCollective, the possibilities are endless! 16bitCollective? As long as you avoid using 8bitcollective as one entire word, you're fine. For 8-bit and Collective, separately are not trademarked words. Too general terms to be able to be trademarked separately.
I think you should totally keep that domain, no one else is worthy of it 
