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Re:The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet ... by mrob on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:20PM (#41714876)
As somebody who buys products, perpetual trademarks are useful to me. I want to know who I'm buying from.

The problem I have is with trademarks being used as nouns but somehow not becoming generic. I searched "Velcro" on Amazon.co.uk. The best selling item is Velcro branded "Stick On". What even is a "stick on"? No reasonable consumer would identify that as a hook and loop fastener without context. "Hook and loop" isn't even written on the front of the packaging. The "Velcro" trademark is clearly functioning as a noun, which means from an ethical point of view it should be generic.

Re:The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet ... by FactKnower69 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:40PM (#41723753)
>As somebody who buys products, perpetual trademarks are useful to me. I want to know who I'm buying from.

You are a mark; you are a rube; you have been rooked. there is absolutely nothing about a trademark that remotely implies a continuity of ownership, certainly not of production quality. see what happened to pyrex, brand loyalty to their trademark from rubes is the only thing going for them any more

Re:The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet ... by mrob on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:29AM (#41728134)
If there were no trademarks you wouldn't even know this happened.