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Originally posted by kristian
I invented the term "porn"
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Garv came up with an idea and themed an adult site on it before any other adult site ever showed up on a search for "whale tail"
And it's a very cool idea and theme.. Fuel Magazine did a 2 page story on it.. FHM featured it..... and no matter how good the site is, they probably wouldn't have even noticed it without the cool Original name "Whale Tail".
For anyone that doesn't know, Garv does cool quirky stuff like this all the time.. and people rip his site designs off and copy his ideas constantly.
He doesn't think he is god or owns rights to the term.... Garv told me about this earlier tonight at a xmas party... and I didn't realise how upset he was until seeing this.... most people probably agree the Hawg's have just grabbed a good opportunity and it's Garv's bad luck.. that may be so, But he isn't just whining about losing a generic search term... he has busted his nut to develop his site... including trying to buy that domain... and he has a lot more right to feel kicked in the guts by this than most of us who have had ideas or sites ripped off.
Garv, as I said earlier tonight, Bosshawg is a genuinely good guy and acts more than fairly when I've seen him in dispute with people.. he is also very approachable. From what I know of him, he would be sympathetic to your situation if he understood this was your baby and not just someone bitching about losing dollars. I know you don't expect him to do anything... and I'm not sure what he could be expected to do.. but the guy has surprised me before, so I really think it is worth giving him a chance to explain what his thinking was before trashing him or his programs. And I am also almost sure he would change that copyright date to 2004 if he knew why, and how much it mattered to you.
Anyway hopefully he will come across this thread even if you don't feel like approaching him. You are both the sort of people we need more of in our industry. So I hope you can work something out.